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        Mubarak Cleared of All Charges in Killing of Egyptian Protesters

   by VOA News

   Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has been cleared on all charges
   stemming from his involvement in the killing of protesters during the
   2011 revolt that ousted him.

   An Egyptian judge spoke for some time Saturday to a packed courtroom
   before announcing that charges against the ousted leader had been
   dismissed.

   The courtroom erupted in applause when the verdict was announced.

   In his lengthy speech, the judge urged journalists not to make any
   comment or analysis about the case until they had read the 1,430-page
   document explaining the verdict.

   Mr. Mubarak's interior minister and six other senior security officers
   who had been accused of ordering the killings of hundreds of protesters
   were also acquitted.

   Mr. Mubarak, and the others were accused of ordering the killings of
   hundreds of protesters.

   The former president was sentenced to life in prison in 2012 for his
   role in the case, but was released a year later and has been under
   house arrest at a military hospital, pending results of the retrial.

   Since then, Egypt has held democratic elections, but the military
   helped overthrow the elected president, Mohamed Morsi, when he pushed
   through a constitution that many Egyptians saw as slanted toward
   Islamists.

   Mr. Mubarak's former intelligence chief, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, is now
   Egypt's president.

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