Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison on Saturday for ordering the killing of protesters during the uprising that swept him from power last year.
Presiding judge Ahmed Refaat also sentenced his former interior minister, Habib el-Adli, to life in prison on the same charge.
Mubarak became president in October 1981, ruling Egypt with an iron hand as a staunch ally of the United States. But all those years in power were shattered by 18 days of uprising that ended on February 11, 2011, when Mubarak was forced to step down.
During the trial, prosecutor Mustafa Suleiman said Mubarak failed to “carry out his duty to stop the bloodshed and the acts of violence against the Egyptian people.”