Robert Mackey reports: In the hours after an Egyptian court dropped all remaining charges against former President Hosni Mubarak on Saturday, activists who supported the uprising that drove him from power in 2011 jeered the ruling online and in the streets near Cairo’s Tahrir Square, which was closed by the security forces.
Protesters in front of Tahrir. Signs read "we are all Khaled Said," "Mubarak innocent why?" and "execute Mubarak" pic.twitter.com/rTK5hVycdy
— Sharif Kouddous (@sharifkouddous) November 29, 2014
Tahrir sq. is closed but some gathered to protest Mubarak's acquittal. #Egypt (via @HebaFarooq) pic.twitter.com/IXEom1mHKz
— Mina Fayek (@minafayek) November 29, 2014
This isn’t a miscarriage of justice, it’s a Rosemary’s Baby of justice.
— sherief gaber (@cairocitylimits) November 29, 2014
After a judge acquitted Mr. Mubarak of corruption and dismissed murder charges against him for the killing of hundreds of protesters, relatives of those killed by the security forces in 2011 were outraged, but dozens of the former president’s supporters applauded in the courtroom and others cheered his return to the military hospital where he has been held. [Continue reading…]
