Cairo: Protests erupted in Egypt in the wake ex-President Hosni Mubarak’s lifetime imprisonment. Scores of people have gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square.
The protesters are angry that some who were on trial alongside Mubarak have been acquitted.
Four interior ministry officials and two local security chiefs were cleared of complicity in protesters’ killings, BBC reported.
Earlier, Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison after a court here found him guilty of complicity in the killing of protesters during a popular uprising against his 30-year rule last year.
The 84-year-old former strongman got life imprisonment along with his former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly.
The Mubarak verdict mocks us. He and [former Interior Minister Habib] Adly got a sentence and their aides got nothing. When they return to court on appeal, they will be freed too,” protester Sharif Ali told the BBC.
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