The despotic Egyptian ex-president Hosni Mubarak has been acquitted of charges based on the killings of hundreds of Egyptian protesters during the Arab Spring, we learned this Saturday. The ex-president, toppled from his position of power during the 2011 military coup, was accused of corruption on multiple levels of his administration due to the killings of more than 200 protesters which seemingly went unaccounted for, according to his persecutors. However, a Cairo judge declared him cleared of all charges in a re-trial this Saturday. The 86 year-old dictator, resting on a hospital gurney (he has been suffering from various forms of disease), nodded stoically as his supporters in the courtroom cheered joyfully and a few aides kissed him on the forehead, seemingly unaffected by his miraculous (and perhaps, ironically, corruption-motivated) sudden acquittal.
This isn't good, I don't think. Tons of Egyptian protesters died in the Arab Spring, and their deaths shouldn't go unanswered by an increasingly corrupt government.
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