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June 4, 2012       Share:    

Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/middleeast/la-fg-egypt-mubarak-sentence-20120603,0,7651344.story

Egypt's Hosni Mubarak Gets Life Sentence

(Los Angeles Times) Jeffrey Fleishman and Amro Hassan - Toppled President Hosni Mubarak was given a life sentence Saturday for complicity in the deaths of hundreds of protesters. Yet his generals are still in charge and one of his loyalists may become the next president. Six top police officials were acquitted of murder charges, and Mubarak and his two sons were found not guilty of financial corruption charges. Presiding Judge Ahmed Refaat said the prosecution's confusing evidence failed to prove that Mubarak ordered the killings, but the judge blamed him for not stopping the bloodshed. He ordered Mubarak and former Interior Minister Habib Adli to prison for the remainder of their lives for the killings of demonstrators from Jan. 25 to Feb. 11, 2011. Mubarak listened stone-faced behind dark sunglasses.

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