Jailed former Egyptian president is cleared of killing hundreds of protesters in uprising
A court in Egypt has dropped all charges against former President Hosni Mubarak over the killing of 239 protesters during the 2011 uprising against him
A court in Egypt has dropped all charges against former President Hosni Mubarak over the killing of 239 protesters during the 2011 uprising against him.
The Cairo courtroom erupted in cheers when the judge concluded Mubarak’s retrial by dismissing the case.
Seven of Mr Mubarak’s senior security officials were also acquitted.
Mubarak, 86, is serving a separate three-year sentence for embezzlement of public funds.
Mubarak, his former interior minister, Habib al-Adly, and six others had been convicted of conspiracy to kill and were sentenced to life in prison in June 2012, but a retrial was ordered last year on a technicality.
In all, some 800 people are thought to have been killed as security forces battled protesters in the weeks before Mubarak resigned on 11 February 2011.
Mubarak was overthrown in the uprisings that swept the Arab world in early 2011.
It is possible his release will spark further violence in the country as many Egyptians will see his release as harking back to the old days of military rule and a reversal of the pro-democracy revolt that toppled him.
And General Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, the army chief who topped President Mohammed Morsi has now become the favourite to lead the country.
He is expected to accept the nomination to run in April’s ‘free’ elections within days, and resign his post.http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/jailed-former-egyptian-president-cleared-4719160
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