A senior police witness in the trial of Hosni Mubarak denied on Monday that police could have used automatic weapons against protesters who ousted the former Egyptian president, state television reported.
"The first witness denied the possibility of using automatic weapons against the protesters," state television said, quoting top police officer General Hussein Saeed Mohamed Mursi. It carried the news in a brief headline because cameras are now banned from the court.
Mubarak has been accused of involvement in the killing of protesters and "inciting" some officers to use live ammunition to fire at protesters.