Former Egypt leader, Mubarak, gets life sentence

Also given a life term on Saturday was Mubarak’s former interior minister Habib al-Eladli, while six former police commanders were acquitted. Meanwhile, corruption charges against Mubarak’s sons, Alaa and Gamal, were dropped. Mubarak, the first Arab leader to be tried by his own people since the wave of uprising began in Tunisia in late 2010, […]

Also given a life term on Saturday was Mubarak’s former interior minister Habib al-Eladli, while six former police commanders were acquitted.

Meanwhile, corruption charges against Mubarak’s sons, Alaa and Gamal, were dropped.

Mubarak, the first Arab leader to be tried by his own people since the wave of uprising began in Tunisia in late 2010, was found guilty for his role in the killing of some 900 protesters during the 18-day revolt that overthrew him on February 11, 2011.
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Hossam Baghat, an attorney from the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights told Al Jazeera that the verdict was likely to be appealed.

“This trial is far, far from over,” said Baghat, adding the the trial was inadequate.

While some cheered the verdict, others in the crowd outside the trial immediately started screaming “False judgement!”

Al Jazeera’s Sherine Tadros, reporting from outside the police academy, said people started throwing bottles at police shortly after the verdicts were read out.

Six others were acquitted of all charges as the judge said, there was insufficient evidence to find them guilty.

The charges against Gamal and Alaa Mubarak were dropped with the judge saying “the case had lapsed” because the alleged crime took place over 10 years ago.

Alaa and Gamal, who were being tried alongside their father for corruption, were facing sentences of up to three years in prison, according to Human Rights Watch.