Saturday’s conviction of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on charges of complicity in the killing of protesters during the January 25 revolution last year will go down in Arab history as an unprecedented event. Never before has an Arab leader been tried before a civilian court while receiving what most observers agree was a fair trial. Mubarak, the uncontested ruler of Egypt for 30 years, was toppled in a peaceful uprising that caught the world’s attention and earned its admiration. In the process more than 800 Egyptians were gunned down by anti-riot police and other organs of the regime.
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