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Ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak attends a hearing in his retrial over charges of failing to stop killings of protesters during the 2011 uprising that led to his downfall, in the Police Academy-turned-court in the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Tarek el Gabbas, File)
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Ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, sits in the defendants cage behind protective glass, during a court hearing as he listens to his son Gamal, left, in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, May 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Tarek el-Gabbas)
Egypt’s Mubarak convicted of graft, gets 3 years
Cairo, AP—A Cairo court on Wednesday convicted ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak of embezzlement, sentencing him to three years in prison. The graft case against the 86-year-old Mubarak, who is kept in custody at a military hospital, is one of two against the...Caption:
Egyptian policemen Awad Suleiman (C-R) and Mahmoud Salah (C-L) in the dock during their retrial for the manslaughter and torture of Khaled Said, Alexandria on March 3, 2014. (AP Photo/Amira Mortada, El Shorouk Newspaper)
We are All Still Khaled Said
On Monday, March 3, the family and friends of Khaled Said won a small victory when ten-year jail sentences were handed down to the two policemen who killed the young man, whose death inspired Egypt’s January 25 revolution. Khaled Said, a 28-year-old blogger, was...Caption:
A general view of the Nile River and the Cairo skyline is seen from the Cairo Tower in Cairo Tower in the Zamalek district on Tuesday, August 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)