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DEBKAfile was founded by a team of journalists in June 2000 as an independent Internet Web site, providing an intelligence and security news service. March 2, 2017, 6:03 PM (IDT)
Egypt's top appeals court on Thursday acquitted former president Hosni Mubarak on charges of conspiring to kill demonstrators during the 2011 uprising that forced him from power. The court also said that no further appeals or individual lawsuits against the ex-president by relatives of the protesters who died will be allowed. It was the final retrial of the 88-year-old Mubarak after he received a life sentence in 2012.
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