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Egyptian court sentences ousted leader Mubarak to three years jail

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is seen in the courtroom for his trial at the Police Academy in Cairo By Maggie Fick CAIRO (Reuters) - Deposed former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was sentenced on Wednesday to three years in prison on a conviction for stealing public funds. The verdict may please some Egyptians who lived through three decades of autocracy under Mubarak before a 2011 uprising toppled him. Mubarak's two sons were sentenced to four years in jail on the same charges of embezzling state funds that had been earmarked for the renovation of presidential palaces but were instead spent on sprucing up family properties.




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