[An Nahar] Thirty complaints have been filed against Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, former head of Egypt's army, and his deputy General Sami Anan, for suppressing last year's popular uprising, a judicial source said Sunday.Anan is also the subject of an additional complaint accusing him of illegally acquiring building plots near Cairo, the source said.
The complaints were forwarded by Attorney General Abdel Meguid Mahmoud to the military prosecutor's office, which will decide whether action should be taken.
If the complaints are recognized as valid, they could lead to the first trial of members of the Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) which ruled Egypt after the fall of president Hosni Mubarak
...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011...
until President Mohamed Morsi's inauguration.
Tantawi, Mubarak's defense minister for two decades, ruled Egypt as head of state after the former strongman's fall.
Anan, the former chief of staff of the armed forces, was number two at the SCAF, a group of 20 generals.