[QUOTE]The 84-year-old is the first former leader to be tried in person since the start of the Arab Spring in early 2011.Former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly also received a life sentence over the deaths of demonstrators.
Mubarak and his two sons - Gamal and Alaa - were acquitted on separate charges of corruption. Shouting and scuffles erupted in court after the verdict was read out.
Correspondents say this was caused by the court's decision to acquit four senior aides to Adly, who are also widely blamed for the death of protesters. ​
Outside the building, Mubarak's sentencing was greeted by celebrations from relatives of those killed, according to the BBC's Yolande Knell.
Firecrackers were set off. Soha Saeed, the wife of one of the victims, shouted: "I'm so happy. I'm so happy."
But the joy soon turned into angry shouts as the crowd learnt that the former interior minister's aides had been cleared.
In a preamble to the verdicts, Judge Ahmed Refaat insisted the 10-month trial had been a fair one.
He spoke of the Mubarak era as "30 years of darkness" and praised what he called "the sons of the nation who rose up peacefully for freedom and justice".
Announcing the verdict, the judge then said Mubarak and Adly had failed to stop security forces using deadly force against unarmed demonstrators.
Mubarak, who ruled the country from 1981 to 2011, had faced a possible death sentence over the killing of about 850 protesters. Despite their acquittal, Alaa and Gamal Mubarak are to remain in detention.
On Wednesday, prosecutors said they would go on trial with seven others on charges of stock market manipulation.
The first leader toppled during the Arab Spring was Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia, who was found guilty in absentia of drugs and gun charges in July.
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was killed by rebels in October. Yemen's Ali Abdullah Saleh received immunity from prosecution after handing over power in November.[/QUOTE]
[URL]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18306126[/URL]
So....10 years if you're lucky?
I doubt he'll be getting out with all the publicity around him. The whole world will want him to stay in.
[QUOTE=Midas22;36166738]I doubt he'll be getting out with all the publicity around him. The whole world will want him to stay in.[/QUOTE]
The man's 84, I don't expect him to live a whole lot longer, hence 10 years if you're lucky.
I doubt he'll live for 10 years, he'll probably die in the next year or so
I think it's great that they are imprisoning him instead of just executing him.
I think it's good they're not executing him. Capital punishment is never acceptable, regardless of the person who receives it.
He's likely going to be tortured to fuck. Honestly, I'd rather be executed if it is faster and involves less pain. Torturing is one of my biggest fears.
[QUOTE=Officer brown;36170062]He's likely going to be tortured to fuck. Honestly, I'd rather be executed if it is faster and involves less pain. Torturing is one of my biggest fears.[/QUOTE]
I don't think those in charge of Egypt now will want to just be a rhyme of the previous regime.
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I am happy though he was given this sentence. I was absolutely certain the sentence would be death, given the history of capital punishment has in that region. Very happily proven wrong.
Someone on my facebook said that they should release him to his people like they did with Gaddafi. Why do people think that way? How does that make them any better than him? She also acted like him being imprisoned was just a "free home with free food" as if being in an Egyptian prison full of people that hate you is a five star Hilton stay.
Glad he's serving life. He deserves to rot in a cell.
[QUOTE=Bentham;36170630]Someone on my facebook said that they should release him to his people like they did with Gaddafi. Why do people think that way? How does that make them any better than him? She also acted like him being imprisoned was just a "free home with free food" as if being in an Egyptian prison full of people that hate you is a five star Hilton stay.
Glad he's serving life. He deserves to rot in a cell.[/QUOTE]
Like they did with Gaddafi?
Gaddafi was mortally wounded while trying to capture him and died before any trial.
That's another error on her part, for assuming they let him loose for that purpose.
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