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The Independent
| 1 year ago
As the Eurozone crisis has teetered along the edge of disaster thanks to continued political and eco.....I've been asking myself that in the streets of Cairo as more and more people doormen, shopkeepers, policemen's families and taxi drivers express...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
Ousted president Hosni Mubarak's health has taken a turn for the worse since he was sentenced this weekend to life in prison for complicity in the killing of protesters, Egypt's state news agency reported Tuesday night. The 84-year-old former...
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The Courier-Mail
| 1 year ago
Hosni Mubarak has suffered an "emotional breakdown" in prison, days after he was sentenced to life over the death of protesters last year, a senior interior ministry official said. The ailing 84-year-old's "health deteriorated while in prison", the...
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AP Online
| 1 year ago
Egypt's ruling military council set a 48-hour deadline Tuesday for political parties to finalize the formation of a 100-member panel to write a new constitution, or it will draw up its own blueprint.
Lawmaker Mustafa Bakri outlined the...
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Al Jazeera
| 1 year ago
49 The crowd in Tahrir on Tuesday night was larger than in past nights, according to witnesses [EPA] Thousands of protesters have converged in Cairo's Tahrir Square for the fourth night in a row to protest against Ahmed Shafiq, the presidential...
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Fox
| 1 year ago
The health of ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak deteriorated sharply on Tuesday, three days after a court sentenced him to life imprisonment in connection to the killing of protesters, a security official said. The official at Cairo's Torah...
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DAWN
| 1 year ago
Crowds of Egyptians flocked to Cairo's iconic Tahrir Square on Tuesday for a mass demonstration to protest against verdicts handed down in ex-president Hosni Mubarak's murder trial. Marchers prepared to leave from several mosques around the capital...
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AP Online
| 1 year ago
The health of ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak deteriorated sharply on Tuesday, three days after a court sentenced him to life imprisonment in connection to killing of protesters, a security official said.
The official at Cairo's...
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Africa Headlines
| 1 year ago
The protest comes in light of popular pressure from pro-revolution forces to pursue a number of demands; applying the political exclusion law and retrying toppled president Hosni Mubarak and six of his Interior Minister's top officers. While Mubarak...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 1 year ago
June 5, 2012 Read later End of an era ... a defaced picture of Mubarak outside his trial...Under Egyptian law, the prosecutor must appeal the entire verdict, which also included convictions and life sentences for Mubarak and his former security chief...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Sixteen months after stepping down from power and now facing a lifetime behind bars, ex-president Hosni Mubarak is still dictating the course of Egypt ian politics. Currently in prison, although awaiting a controversial appeal, Mubarak's presence is...
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Democracy Now
| 1 year ago
Protests have erupted across Egypt following the sentencing of ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and other former regime officials. On Saturday, an Egyptian court gave Mubarak and his former interior minister, Habib al-Adly, life in prison for...
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Africa Headlines
| 1 year ago
Among the protesters' demands were suspending the presidential elections and forming a civil presidential council, purifying the judiciary system and media, as well as forming a public revolution court to try Mubarak and his prominent figures. The...
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Africa Headlines
| 1 year ago
Former president Hosni Mubarak and former Interior Minister Habib Al-Adli were sentenced to life imprisonment over killing protesters. Egyptians at Tahrir square expressed their dissatisfaction with the acquittal of Al-Adli's six aides from charges...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Egyptian activists who spearheaded the revolt that toppled President Hosni Mubarak have called for mass demonstrations on Tuesday to protest against verdicts handed down in the strongman's murder trial. Mubarak and his Interior Minister Habib al-Adly...
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Epoch Times
| 1 year ago
June 4, 2012 Ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is wheeled into an ambulance following his verdict hearing in Cairo on June 2. A judge sentenced Mubarak to life in prison for involvement in the murder of protesters during last year's uprising...
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The New York Times
| 1 year ago
Thousands of protesters poured into the streets of Cairo and other cities for a second night on Sunday to vent their anger at the decision. Mohamed Morsi, the presidential candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood , stood with the protesters and sought to...
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Ledger-Enquirer
| 1 year ago
An Egyptian presidential candidate, who was the last prime minister in the regime deposed by last year's popular revolution, lashed out at his Islamist rival Sunday, warning he and his fundamentalist group would monopolize power and take Egypt back...
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Africa Headlines
| 1 year ago
H 3 June 2012 Egypt's Health Ministry (MOH) announced that the total number of injures from yesterday's protests in Tahrir and other squares amounted to 113. Some of the injuries were treated in mobile clinics while urgent ones were transferred to...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Egypt's state prosecutor said on Sunday he would appeal sentences handed down in Hosni Mubarak's trial as hundreds of Egyptians occupied Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday after a night of rage. A judge sentenced Mubarak, 84, and his Interior Minister...
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Zee News
| 1 year ago
Interior Minister Habib al-Adly yesterday by a Cairo court which, however, acquitted six former police commanders. The court also dropped the separate corruption charges against Mubarak and his two sons Alaa and Gamal. But his sons will remain in...
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News 24
| 1 year ago
Hundreds of Egyptians occupied Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday after a night of rage as the state prosecutor said he would appeal sentences handed down to Hosni Mubarak and his security chiefs. A judge sentenced Mubarak, 84, and his interior minister...
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USA Today
| 1 year ago
Egypt's top prosecutor is appealing the verdicts in the trial of Egypt's ousted president and others, acquitting Hosni Mubarak and his two sons on corruption charges and clearing senior police officers of complicity in killing protesters, an official...
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Fox News
| 1 year ago
Presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq, a former prime minister under Hosni Mubarak's regime, has attacked his Islamist rival by saying he would terrorize Christians and lead Egypt to "the dark ages." Mohammed Morsi of the fundamentalist Muslim...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
Picture taken on November 11, 2006 shows ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak speaking during a meeting in Cairo. A judge sentenced Mubarak to life in prison after convicting him of involvement in the murder of protesters during the uprising that...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
For nearly 30 years he was the pharaoh-like ruler whose word was law, the plunderer of billions of pounds of government money and controller of Egypt's brutal police state. Last night (Saturday) Hosni Mubarak began a new life as a convicted murderer.
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MarketWatch
| 1 year ago
Egyptians on Sunday continued their protests in Cairo against the Saturday verdict in the trial of former President Hosni Mubarak, reports say. Arab opinion divided on Mubarak verdict Residents in Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq voice mixed feelings on the...
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CNN
| 1 year ago
Hundreds of people began gathering in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday, foreshadowing a second day of protests after the country's deposed president Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison for ordering the killing of demonstrators in the...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
Hundreds of Egyptian protesters are occupying Cairo's Tahrir Square in a effort to capitalise on popular anger following the trial of Hosni Mubarak. There were mass protests on Saturday and overnight against what many see as lenient sentences handed...
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Novinite
| 1 year ago
Parts of Egyptian society are happy with justice being served against their former dictator, but others say that the trial was protective of Mubarak and his subordinates. The judge did not convict Mubarak or any of the other accused with...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Hundreds of demonstrators were occupying Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday in a protest against sentences handed down the day before to former president Hosni Mubarak and his security chiefs. Some of the demonstrators had slept in tents or out in the...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Thousands of Egypt ians who are unsatisfied with the verdict have gathered at the historic Tahrir square on Sunday morning. Hours after the verdict, thousands of angry protesters flood the Tahrir square in protest of the acquittal of former Egypt ian...
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Fox
| 1 year ago
Former President Hosni Mubarak got a life sentence Saturday for failing to stop the killing of protesters during Egypt's uprising. But he and his sons were cleared of corruption charges, setting off protests for greater accountability for 30 years of...
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Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
| 1 year ago
But it was not enough for thousands of Egyptians who poured onto the streets afterwards in a nation already on edge before a deciding presidential vote in two weeks. Some wanted Mubarak executed, others feared the judge's ruling exposed weaknesses in...
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The Independent
| 1 year ago
Cairo courtroom for the verdict, responded with jubilation to the lengthy imprisonment. But their celebrations turned ugly as word of the acquittals filtered through. Mubarak's sons, Alaa and Gamal Mubarak, were also acquitted of corruption, although...
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Mail Online UK
| 1 year ago
2 June 2012 Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life imprisonment yesterday after a court convicted him of complicity in the killing of 850 protesters during last year's Arab Spring uprising that forced him from power. Cairo...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 1 year ago
Angry protesters have staged big rallies in Egypt after a court sentenced former president Hosni Mubarak to life in prison, but acquitted six police chiefs of murder. Crowds outside the court in Cairo cheered when the chief judge jailed Mubarak for...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
Young anti-Mubarak protesters chant outside of the Cairo courthouse where former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak awaiting a verdict in his trial, June 2, 2012. (VOA/Y. Egypt's former president, Hosni Mubarak, has been found guilty for his role in...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
For opponents of the former government, fears are high that the sentences handed down to Mubarak and al-Adly could be overturned on appeal. The influential Muslim Brotherhood has sought to make political capital out of the situation, alleging that...
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Kuwait Times
| 1 year ago
Hosni Mubarak, toppled by an uprising last year after 30 years ruling Egypt, was sentenced to life imprisonment yesterday for his role in killing protesters after a trial that sets a precedent for holding Middle East autocrats to account. But it was...
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The News Tribune
| 1 year ago
An Egyptian judge Saturday sentenced deposed President Hosni Mubarak and his minister of interior to life in prison for the death of nearly 1,000 protesters during the uprising that led to Mubaraks resignation. But the judge acquitted five others in...
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Al Jazeera English
| 1 year ago
21 Cairo - An Egyptian court has sentenced former president Hosni Mubarak to life in prison for complicity in killing more than 800 protesters during last year's revolution, a first in the Arab world and a major achievement for the revolution which...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Egypt's influential Muslim Brotherhood on Saturday slammed a court ruling that sentenced ousted President Hosni Mubarak and his interior minister to life in prison but acquitted his security chiefs. An official with the Brotherhood's presidential...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Egypt ian ex-president Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life imprisonment Saturday for complicity in the deaths of anti-government protestors. The deposed Egypt ian president was wheeled into the Cairo courtroom to hear the verdict and the heard the...
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GMA News
| 1 year ago
A judge sentenced former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak to life in prison on Saturday after convicting him of involvement in the murder of protesters during the uprising that ousted him last year. A senior lawyer for Mubarak's defence team told...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Mubarak and his two sons, Alaa and Gamal, were tried on charges of corruption and ordering the killing of protesters during the revolution that ended his reign after 18 days of popular protest. Mubarak was sentenced to 25 years in prison Saturday and...
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Rediff
| 1 year ago
O ver 800 protesters had been killed during the 18-day revolt following which Mubarak was ousted on February 11, 2011. Handing down the sentence to Mubarak and al-Adly, Judge Ahmed Refaat said that the 10-month trial had been a fair one. He said...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
Diaa Bekheet June 02, 2012 Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has received a sentence of life in prison for complicity in the killing of hundreds of anti-government protesters during last year's 18-day uprising that forced him to resign on...
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Novinite
| 1 year ago
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has been found guilty in the killing of protesters during last year's uprising. The Egyptian Court has sentenced the ex- President to life in prison for complicity in the massacres, BBC reports Saturday. The 84-...
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Indian Express
| 1 year ago
were acquitted on corruption charges. Scuffles broke out in the Cairo courtroom after the verdicts were announced Saturday. Mubarak is the first Arab leader to be tried by his own people in the country. Egyptians celebrated outside a court that...
