{"id":69847,"date":"2014-11-29T13:45:11","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T13:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=69847"},"modified":"2014-11-29T13:45:11","modified_gmt":"2014-11-29T13:45:11","slug":"egypt-court-drops-mubarak-murder-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/11\/egypt-court-drops-mubarak-murder-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt court drops Mubarak murder case"},"content":{"rendered":"
A court in Egypt has dropped charges against former President Hosni Mubarak over the killing of 239 protesters during the 2011 uprising against him.<\/p>\n
The Cairo courtroom erupted in cheers when the judge concluded Mubarak’s retrial by dismissing the case.<\/p>\n
Charges against seven of Mubarak’s senior officials, including his interior minister, were also dropped.<\/p>\n
Mubarak, 86, is serving a separate three-year sentence for embezzlement of public funds.<\/p>\n
Mubarak, his former Interior Minister, Habib al-Adly, and six others had been convicted of conspiracy to kill and were sentenced to life in prison in June 2012, but a retrial was ordered last year on a technicality.<\/p>\n
In all, some 800 people are thought to have been killed as security forces battled protesters in the weeks before Mubarak resigned on 11 February 2011.<\/p>\n