CAIRO (AP) ? A Cairo court on Thursday found four senior policemen not guilty of killing protesters during last year's popular uprising, the latest acquittal of officials charged in connection with the more than 800 deaths during the crackdown.
The four police generals are among some 200 security officers and other former regime officials who have been tried or still face charges in separate cases related to the deaths of protesters during the revolt that toppled longtime President Hosni Mubarak. The ousted leader himself received a life sentence for failing to stop the killings, but the vast majority of police officials has been acquitted or is still on trial.
There have been just two cases in which security officials have been convicted, but in both instances they received suspended sentences or were tried in absentia.
Critics say the acquittals leave unanswered the question of who was to blame for the deaths.
Many Egyptians accuse the authorities of failing to adequately investigate what happened during the early days of the revolt when riot police waged a fierce crackdown in an attempt to quell the anti-Mubarak demonstrations. Others accuse the Interior Ministry of either hiding or tampering with evidence that could have revealed who was behind the killings.
Separately, another court acquitted four former militant Jihadists, in a retrial after a military tribunal had convicted them in absentia on several charges, including plotting a coup, and sentenced them to death.
The four are former leading members of the militant Gamaa Islamiya group, which was behind the assassination of former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981. Among those acquitted was Mohammed el-Islambouli, the brother of Sadat's assassin.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/egypt-4-top-police-cleared-killing-protesters-125126045.html
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