Witness Claims Coercion in Implication of Nour
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From Times Wire Reports
A key prosecution witness, Ayman Hassan, testified that security services had forced him to implicate Egyptian opposition leader Ayman Nour on forgery charges.
The judge quickly adjourned Nour’s trial until Wednesday.
Nour’s defenders said the statement proved the government of President Hosni Mubarak had tried to frame Nour to eliminate him as a candidate in the upcoming presidential election.
Though he has yet to announce his candidacy, Mubarak is widely expected to run for a fifth term.
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