Wall Street Journal | Egypt Court Drops Murder Charges Against Mubarak Wall Street Journal CAIRO—An Egyptian court dismissed murder charges against former President Hosni Mubarak on Saturday in the killing of hundreds of protesters by police in a 2011 uprising against his decades of autocratic rule, a decision that comes as the nation ... Egypt: Ex-ruler Hosni Mubarak, accused in deaths of hundreds, cleared of charges Why Egypt just freed former dictator Hosni Mubarak Egypt court dismisses murder charges against Mubarak |
USA TODAY | 6 Are Killed in Egypt After a Call for Protests Rattles the Authorities New York Times The Salafi Front, a small, ultraconservative group with no track record of major public demonstrations, had called for the day of protest to defend what it said was Egypt's Islamic identity, contending that that identity had come under assault since ... Explosions rattle Egypt amid calls for Islamic uprising Egypt police clash with Islamists: Two dead Egypt Government Puts Down Attempt at Large Protests |
Aljazeera.com | Egypt court dismisses charges against Mubarak Aljazeera.com An Egyptian court has thrown out charges against former President Hosni Mubarak, his interior minister and six aides over the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising against him. Mubarak and his sons Alaa and Gamal were also cleared by Chief ... |
BBC News | Hosni Mubarak: Egypt court drops charges over 2011 uprising deaths BBC News A court in Egypt has dropped charges against former President Hosni Mubarak over the killing of 239 protesters during the 2011 uprising against him. The Cairo court erupted in cheers when the judge said Mubarak should not have been a defendant in the ... |
Reuters | Egyptian court drops case against Mubarak over 2011 protest deaths Reuters His overthrow led to Egypt's first free election but the winner, Mohamed Mursi, was ousted last year by then-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, following protests against his rule. Sisi, who went on to win a presidential election in May, launched a ... |
RT | Protest follows verdict to acquit Egypt's ex-leader Mubarak of murder ... RT An Egyptian court has found former president Hosni Mubarak not guilty of conspiring to kill hundreds of protesters during the 2011 uprising, which led to his ouster. He was further exonerated on separate corruption charges. Addressing journalists in ... |
New York Times | Egyptian Judges Drop All Charges Against Mubarak New York Times CAIRO — An Egyptian court dropped all remaining criminal charges against former President Hosni Mubarak on Saturday in a sweeping repudiation of the Arab Spring uprising that forced him from power. The court dismissed murder charges against Mr. |
What Hosni Mubarak's acquittal means for Egypt Telegraph.co.uk Most importantly, Egypt's new strongman, President Abdulfattah al-Sisi, owes his own position to the tough line he took with protests subsequent to the military coup that brought him to power. A thousand more protesters died in August last year, and ... |
Egypt's Mubarak says he 'did nothing wrong' Al-Arabiya Egypt's ousted president Hosni Mubarak expressed on Saturday relief when a court dismissed a murder charge against him over a deadly crackdown on protesters in 2011 as well as two other offenses related to graft and corruption. In a telephone interview ... |
Egypt's 'Trial of the Century': a step forward or back? Al-Arabiya Ahmad Ragheb, a human rights attorney in Egypt, said that Mubarak's acquittal sends a message that the “millions of people who took to the street in January of 2011 had no reason to do so.” “The regime is revamping itself, and acquitting itself,” he ... |