OUSTED EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT,HOSNI MUBARAK SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON

Fallen dictator,Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison today after he was convicted of ordering troops to open fire on demonstrators during the Egyptian uprising,a verdict that saw victims' families and angry protesters who wanted him given the death penalty disrupt the court proceedings.According to Amnesty International,about 640 people were killed and more than 6000 wounded in the uprising.Click on read more below to continue...


Mubarak and the judge had to be removed from the courtroom during the melee.The sentence handed down by Judge Ahmed Refaat was the final chapter of Mubarak's three decade iron rule of Egypt that was brought to an end in February 2011.Rafaat chose the lesser of two sentences,Mubarak could have received the death penalty