#Egypt police acquitted of uprising deaths as Mursi calls for “peaceful” revolt
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Egyptian riot policemen stand guard behind barbed wire outside the Police Academy where a hearing in the espionage trial of Egypt’s ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi is expected to open on February 16, 2014 in Cairo. (Photo: AFP - Khaled Desouki)
An Egyptian court acquitted six police on Saturday of killing protesters during the 2011 uprising against Hosni Mubarak, as his now deposed Islamist successor #Mohammed_Mursi called for a “peaceful revolution” during his trial. The acquittal of the six officers on charges of killing 83 protesters outside police stations in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, came as a Cairo court resumed the trial of Mursi on charges of plotting violence during the revolt. read (...)
