One acquittal was overturned, resulting in the conviction of one defendant of crimes against humanity, while the other four cases were dismissed.

So how many people who saw the film did not get that here was a woman in love, that she was completely innocent and saw great joy in her life, and she was youthful?

It was not until 26 June 1999 that the Constitutional Court ruled that a conviction by an appeal court following an acquittal by the court of first instance did not violate the right to review.

Ahmed Shokier, another Egyptian blogger, posts two photographs of judges involved with the case one of Ahmed Refaa El Najaar who said Mamdouh not guilty, and the other for Khaled Badr El Deen who declared the suspect guilty and sentenced him to seven years in prison.

Although Mubarak and his interior (security) minister, Habib al Adly, were handed life sentences at the conclusion of their trials, the generals who ran Egypt s apparatus of repression as deputy interior ministers were acquitted.

Indeed, Russia's military prosecutor has now issued an international arrest warrant for her, even though the officer she is accused of bribing was acquitted in a trial in Moscow last year of the very charges that prosecutors now want to question her about.