Mubarak acquitted of killing protesters during the Arab Spring

[Her]

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A court in Egypt has dropped charges against former President Hosni Mubarak over the killing of 239 protesters during the 2011 uprising against him.

The Cairo courtroom erupted in cheers when the judge concluded Mubarak's retrial by dismissing the case.

Charges against seven of Mr Mubarak's senior officials, including his interior minister, were also dropped.

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.

.....so, this ******** just happened.

 

[Kanzler]

He will indeed die soon. The guy has to get in and out of the courtroom on a stretcher.

Anyways, justice for Mubarak isn't the most important thing Egypt has to figure out recently. It must rebuild after its economy suffered during the revolution, and as well figure out what they're going to do about Libya and the Islamic State.

 

[Nyro]

Not really surprising, We sit here and complain about all the injustices we perceive there to be in the USA when 100x greater injustices happen around the world even in places we give Billions in humanitarian aid to. I wish America would just focus on ourselves for once and let the rest of the world worry about their own problems.

 

[Livewire]

@ above

You can't have America being the righteous police force of liberty and not get involved in foreign affairs. That comes with the territory. And withdrawing from the geopolitical rat race in the globalized, modern era isn't something the main superpower can do.

Mubarak's regime committed atrocities for years leading up to the Arab Spring and during the protesting he, as head of state, let the military loose on civilian populations. It's not quote "******** because he doesn't agree with it" unquote, it's because the man is a despot who was plenty willing to sacrifice his own people to cling to his little sliver of power.

 

[Her]

furthermore
you would think that despite his health, he'd at least get a symbolic sentence
a tiny bit of solace for the family of those whose lives he was responsible for ending

like
we all know rolf harris is gonna die relatively soon due to his advanced age but that didn't stop him from getting sentenced for nearly 6 years due to indecent assault/child sex abuse

 

[Nyro]

@ above

You can't have America being the righteous police force of liberty and not get involved in foreign affairs. That comes with the territory. And withdrawing from the geopolitical rat race in the globalized, modern era isn't something the main superpower can do.

Mubarak's regime committed atrocities for years leading up to the Arab Spring and during the protesting he, as head of state, let the military loose on civilian populations. It's not quote "******** because he doesn't agree with it" unquote, it's because the man is a despot who was plenty willing to sacrifice his own people to cling to his little sliver of power.

I don't think we should be the global police force OR the UN's grunt.

 

[Kanzler]

Mubarak's regime committed atrocities for years leading up to the Arab Spring and during the protesting he, as head of state, let the military loose on civilian populations. It's not quote "******** because he doesn't agree with it" unquote, it's because the man is a despot who was plenty willing to sacrifice his own people to cling to his little sliver of power.

That's all irrelevant now because the military has their candidate back in power, supported probably by the same people that supported Mubarak when he was in power. They might try to shore up their relationship with the United States to the status quo before the revolution, and I don't think that's out of the question because they're getting the $575 million of military aid that was frozen when Morsi was ousted. The United States is used to living and supporting unsavoury regimes and I don't see why this arrangement would change with Egypt given the US need for allies in the Middle East.

Interestingly enough in other news, Egypt and a couple of other gulf countries have started an intervention in Libya (which as you might know is again in civil war) without consultation with the United States. This signifies a lack of faith in whether the United States can contribute to the stability in Libya and the neighbours have taken things into their own hands.

Anyways, no the military isn't going to punish its own forbearer and no, I doubt the United States is going to involve itself further in the Islamic world and I think the Arab countries have figured that out as well.