Deposed president , along with his sons , was also
cleared of corruption charges relating to the sale
of gas to Israel .
An Egyptian court has thrown out a case against
former President Hosni Mubarak for conspiring to
murder protesters during the 2011 Egyptian
revolution due to a technicality and lack of
jurisdiction .
Mubarak and his sons Alaa and Gamal were also
cleared by Chief Judge Mahmoud Kamel al-
Rashidi of corruption charges related to exporting
gas to Israel.
The same Cairo court acquitted Habib al-Adli ,
former Mubarak -era interior minister, and six
senior security commanders of conspiracy to
murder protesters .
Al Jazeera' s senior political analyst Marwan
Bishara said the trial was highly politicised and
the verdict was " stunning ".
"I am speechless ," he said . "
Because the judge has
told us not to discuss his verdict until we have
examined the 1, 430 page document.
"
"This is an arrogant attempt to make the Egyptian
people feel sorry for coming out to the streets , " he
added.
"This is trying to retrieve the old Egypt and
basically clear three decades of dictatorship .
Basically we have everyone that has been in
charge of the violence and corruption cleared of all
charges, while in prison we have thousands of
peaceful civil rights activists . "
Mubarak, 86 , had been accused along with the
former police commanders of involvement in the
killing of 846 demonstrators during the 2011 revolt
that ended his three -decade rule .
Only 239 of the
deaths were considered by the court, the presiding
judge said .
An appeals court had overturned an initial life
sentence for Mubarak in 2012 on a technicality.
The new verdict was initially scheduled for
September 27, but Judge Rashidi postponed it,
saying he had not finished writing the reasoning
after a retrial that saw thousands of case files
presented
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