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Egypt orders retrial of politician in blood bag case
06 Nov 2008 16:11:41 GMT
 Source: Reuters
CAIRO, Nov 6 (Reuters) - A Cairo appeals court on Thursday ordered a new trail for a leading member of Egypt's ruling party acquitted of supplying hospitals with defective blood collection bags, judicial sources said.

The Court of Cassation said the original felonies court had made a mistake applying the law and the case against parliamentarian Hani Surour should go to another felonies court.

Surour had been found not guilty in April. Opposition groups have since cited his acquittal in their criticism of President Hosni Mubarak's National Democratic Party, which holds a majority in parliament.

Surour, who heads parliament's economic affairs committee, owns a medical supplies company that sold thousands of blood bags to government-run hospitals.

The court also ordered new trails for five other defendants acquitted in April, among them Surour's sisters, the sources said.

Experts and health ministry officials have said the bags provided by Surour's firm, Hidelina, were substandard and allowed their contents to spoil, putting the lives of patients at risk.

Parliament stripped Surour of his immunity from prosecution in January 2007. (Writing by Cynthia Johnston; editing by Catherine Bosley)


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