Egypt News - Hosni Mubarak sentenced to life

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life imprisonment on Saturday, June 2, 2012 for ordering the killings of protesters during the uprising that swept Egypt last year.

Quoted by Reuters, the judge also sentenced former Interior Minister Habib el-Adli life in prison on similar charges.

Meanwhile, CNN reported the atmosphere in the courtroom was chaotic because the protesters did not accept the victim's family with the verdict. They stood on a chair and held up their fist in the air and shouted sentence verdict was not enough. Mubarak and the judge then removed from the courtroom chaos.

The verdict handed down by Judge Ahmed Refaat is a final round of Mubarak's rule in three decades, the power to remove the iron hand of Egypt, which ended in February 2011.

According to Amnesty International, about 840 people died and more than 6,000 others wounded in the uprising.

Former Interior Minister Habib El Adly also convicted for ordering the security forces killed protesters and sentenced to life imprisonment. El Adly previously sentenced to 12 years in prison on charges of corruption and money laundering. But the judge to clean child-Gamal and Alaa Mubarak, Mubarak and several helpers.

Mubarak and his sons arrived Saturday morning in Cairo Police Academy, where the trial was held under tight security. Lined up behind police barricades to separate the demonstrators.

Hundreds of people outside the court chanted "Execution is the only solution" and "He who kills shall die.". Families of those killed during the protest poster displaying family photos of the dead, while dozens of Mubarak supporters chanted "Mubarak is innocent." viva

Ironic News - 'Sandal with Hosni Mubarak picture' Rampant in Egypt

While the former Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, was tried at the Police Academy in the city of Cairo, a trader sells a unique flip-out location of the court on Wednesday (04/01/2012). Unlike the usual sandals, slippers are in great demand villagers pictorial former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, his son Gamal and former Interior Minister Habib el-Adli. Sandal is produced as a mockery against Mubarak and the people nearby who are considered responsible for the deaths of 850 demonstrators in the protests last February. (Photo: REUTERS / Amr Abdallah Dalsh) viva

Egypt News - Egypt's Coptic Christian pope dies

Egypt's Coptic Christian pope, Shenouda III, died on Saturday, March 17, 2012. Leaders of some 12 million Christians in Egypt are the people died from the disease in old age.

"She died from complications of health and old age," said adviser Coptic church, Hany Aziz, was quoted by Reuters. Previously, Shenouda had just returned from medical treatment abroad.

Thousands of people thronged the various cathedral Copts in Egypt, one in Cairo. Some of the pilgrims looked so sad not help but collapsed, while others shed tears.

Shenouda, 88, was the 117th Pope of Alexandria who was appointed in November 1971. He was renowned as a leader and innovator of solidarity between Muslims and Christians in Egypt for 40 years at the helm. His name is known to people of all faiths fragrant in the country.

"Egypt has lost a rare man in a sensitive moment, in the moments that require a lot of wisdom, expertise and purity of mind," said the imam of al-Azhar, Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayib.

Since taking office, the famous Shenouda critical of the government. In the handling of the Islamic insurgency in the 1970s, he criticized the government for targeting Anwar Sadat Christians.

In addition, he is also anti-Israel, seen in its rejection of the Egypt-Israel peace treaty in 1979 which was pioneered by Sadat.

By his criticism, Sadat exiled Shenouda Wadi el Natrun to the temple in west Cairo and dismantle the whole authority. It was only since Hosni Mubarak came to power, relations between the Coptic church and the government began to harmony. viva