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Rights group urges trial if Mubarak seeks German hospital refuge

Arab World Materials 8 February 2011 20:19 (UTC +04:00)

Germany should put Egypt's President Hosny Mubarak on trial for human rights breaches if he seeks refuge in a German hospital, Amnesty International said in Berlin on Tuesday, reported dpa

The rights group spoke up amid speculation, so far denied by Berlin, that Mubarak might seek medical care abroad as a face-saving way of leaving Cairo without resigning before a September election. 

Monika Lueke, head of the German arm of Amnesty International, said it would file a complaint to the German federal prosecutor, who has power to investigate human rights violations abroad, if Mubarak, 82, arrived. 

"Mubarak represents a system in which people have been systematically tortured and abused for decades," she said.

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