Political update
Mubarak Found Guilty
Following on Sharkawy & Sarhan’s political update issue no. 7, the court has found former president Mubarak and former minister of interior Habib El Adly guilty and sentenced them to life imprisonment for failure to stop the murder of protestors during the Egyptian revolution. It is worth noting that there have been six high-ranking Ministry of Interior (MOI) officials charged also in this case. However, they were all acquitted for lack of evidence linking the police to the murders. The reaction of the people to this verdict came unwelcoming, as many people were disappointed from the failure to link the police to the murder of the protestors. The court has also dismissed the financial corruption charges against the former president and his sons because they were time-barred. The full reasoning of the court has not been published yet.
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