Message #22000

[Psalm 51:17]

Mubarak gets life in prison after being found guilty of conspiring to kill protesters

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/06/02/egypt-mubarak-gets-life-in-prison-after-being-found-guilty-conspiring-to-kill/#ixzz1wegNAX7d

CAIRO –  Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison Saturday for failing to stop the killing of protesters during the uprising that forced him from power last year. The ousted president and his sons were acquitted, however, of corruption charges in a mixed verdict that swiftly provoked a new wave of anger on Egypt's streets.
 
Calls have gone out for a massive protest at Tahrir Square, the heart of the uprising, at 5 p.m.
 
After the sentencing, the 84-year old Mubarak suffered a "health crisis" while on a helicopter flight to a Cairo prison hospital, according to security officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. One state media report said it was a heart attack, but that could not immediately be confirmed.
 
The officials said Mubarak cried in protest and resisted leaving the helicopter that took him to a prison hospital for the first time since he was detained in April 2011. Mubarak stayed at a regular hospital in his favorite Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh from his arrest until his trial began in on Aug. 3. The officials said he insisted on the helicopter that he be flown to the military hospital on the eastern outskirts of Cairo where he has stayed during the trial.