Egyptian police have used tear gas to disperse protesters angry that charges against ex-President Hosni Mubarak over killings during the uprising three years ago have been dropped. About 2,000 people massed in Cairo's Tahrir Square, the birthplace of the 2011 revolution. One person was reported killed in the clashes.http://www.thedailystar.net/egypt-anger-as-mubarak-cleared-52736
Mubarak was originally sentenced to life in jail then cleared in a retrial. In a TV interview after the ruling, Mubarak said he did "nothing wrong". The former president, 86, is serving a separate three-year sentence for embezzlement of public funds. In a rare and risky act of defiance, crowds gathered close to Tahrir Square.http://www.thedailystar.net/egypt-anger-as-mubarak-cleared-52736
, but hugely symbolic. Both liberals and Islamists called for freedom. For some it felt - briefly - like an echo of the revolution. The security forces moved in after a few hours,
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