Mubarak Cleared of All Charges in Killing of Egyptian Protesters

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2014-11-29

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has been cleared on all charges stemming from his involvement in the killing of protesters during the 2011 revolt that ousted him.

An Egyptian judge spoke for some time Saturday to a packed courtroom before announcing that charges against the ousted leader had been dismissed.

The courtroom erupted in applause when the verdict was announced.

In his lengthy speech, the judge urged journalists not to make any comment or analysis about the case until they had read the 1,430-page document explaining the verdict.

Mr. Mubarak's interior minister and six other senior security officers who had been accused of ordering the killings of hundreds of protesters were also acquitted.

Mr. Mubarak, and the others were accused of ordering the killings of hundreds of protesters.

The former president was sentenced to life in prison in 2012 for his role in the case, but was released a year later and has been under house arrest at a military hospital, pending results of the retrial.

Since then, Egypt has held democratic elections, but the military helped overthrow the elected president, Mohamed Morsi, when he pushed through a constitution that many Egyptians saw as slanted toward Islamists.

Mr. Mubarak's former intelligence chief, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, is now Egypt's president.

Source: Voice of America

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