An Egyptian court Wednesday sentenced ousted president Hosni Mubarak to three years in prison on charges of stealing public funds. The court fined Mubarak and his sons 2.98 million US dollars and ordered them to repay about 125 million Egyptian pounds of funds the court said they had stolen. The courts verdict was for a financial, not a criminal crime. But many prominent activists have recently been given harsher sentences for street protests than Mubarak received for embezzling millions. Senior members of the Muslim Brotherhood, including the spiritual guide of the Islamist movement, have been sentenced to death. The disparity in these sentencing has stirred a lot of controversy in the north African state, so we ask in our question of the day: Is the Egyptian court saying that embezzlement of millions of dollars of public funds a lesser offense than street protests considering Mubaraks short jail term?
Posted on: Thu, 22 May 2014 09:23:19 +0000
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