Key event for Arab Spring

The beginning of the trial against Hosni Mubarak and his sons looks more like revenge than justice, writes the left-liberal daily Libération: "Mubarak's trial has begun with a sinister bit of theatre aimed at humiliating the accused. As a result justice has paved the way for its opposite: revenge. How else to understand the way Mubarak and his sons have been paraded before court locked behind bars like dogs, very much like in the times of the recent dictatorship? Is now not the time to break with such behaviour and turn a new leaf? ... The trial against Mubarak, which was unimaginable not long ago, is a key event for Egypt and the entire Arab Spring. It must be exemplary if it is to lay the foundation for democracy. Because a regime's true nature is revealed in how it treats its enemies."

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