An
Egyptian court has dismissed a murder charge against ousted president Hosni
Mubarak over the deaths of protesters during a 2011 uprising that ended the
former strongman's decades-long rule.
Housni
Mubarak, 86 and his sons Alaa, 53 and Gamal, 51 were also cleared by Chief
Judge Mahmoud Kamel al-Rashid of corruption charges related to exporting gas to
Israel but he will remain in prison because he is serving a three-year sentence
in a separate corruption case.
Seven of
his security commanders, including the feared former interior minister Habib
al-Adly, were acquitted of conspiracy to murder demonstrator.
There
was jubilation in the courtroom and Mubarak's two sons and
co-defendants stooped down to kiss his forehead when the judge read out
the verdict, as Mubarak lay in an upright stretcher inside the caged dock.
The ruling
came after a dramatic retrial in which the former president defended his
30-year rule.
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