There wasn’t any pressure from Arab states on Cairo to discourage prosecution of former President Hosni Mubarak, the ruling military council said.
Mubarak suffered a heart attack this month while being questioned about the killings of pro-democracy protesters.
Several members of the former regime are under investigation for ordering a military response to quiet pro-reform demonstrations that ultimately forced Mubarak to step down in February after three decades in power.
The military council Tuesday said there wasn’t any pressure from Saudi Arabia or the United Arab Emirates to stop the prosecution of Mubarak, Egyptian daily newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm reports.
Saudi Arabia allegedly threatened to pull its money out of Egypt should Mubarak be prosecuted though military authorities in Cairo called on foreign media outlets to make sure they were getting their story straight.
Meanwhile, the trial for former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly and six of his senior assistants was delayed until May 21 to give the defense time to review the charges.
A government report from Cairo found the minister issued orders to shoot protesters.
Official statistics place the number of dead at 846 with another 6,400 people injured from Jan. 25-Feb. 11