Khalid Abdel Nasser

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Khalid Abdel Nasser (ar:خالد عبد الناصر), eldest son of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, accused in 1988 of being part of a secret leftist organization, Egypt Revolution, a Nasserist group that violently opposed the 1979 peace treaty between Egypt and Israel.[1] The Egyptian state sought the death penalty in a case which accused Nasser's son of trying to overthrow the government and involvement in a spate of assassinations and bombings. The case eventually became a test of strength between the judiciary and the executive when judges threw out much of the case, accusing police and prosecutors of collusion in torturing the defendants.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ YOUSSEF M. IBRAHIM, New York Times, February 19, 1988, "Nasser Son Indicted In Attacks on Envoys From Israel and U.S."
  2. ^ المصورو , "النيابة في قفص الاتهام", عاطف فرج Atif Farag, al-Musawwar, March 10, 1990 "The Prosecutor in the Prisoner's Dock"


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