According to the bbc.co.uk, a court in Egypt has dropped all
charges against former President Hosni Mubarak over the killing of protesters
during the 2011 uprising against him.
The courtroom in Cairo erupted in cheers when the judge concluded Mubarak's retrial by dismissing the case. Seven of Mr Mubarak's senior security officials were also acquitted.
Mubarak, 86, is serving a separate three-year sentence for embezzlement of public funds.
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.
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, the bbc.co.uk reports.
Read More; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-30258537
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