Egypt's general prosecutor on Sunday appealed the verdicts in the trial of Egypt's ousted president and others, acquitting Hosni Mubarak and his two sons on corruption charges and clearing senior police officers of complicity in killing protesters, Al Jazeera reported.
Former president Mubarak and former interior minister Habib al-Adli were sentenced to life in prison on Saturday for their role in the killings. But six senior police officials charged with the killing of protesters during the uprising against Mubarak, were acquitted for lack of evidence.
Thousands of Egyptians took to the streets to protest the verdicts, some calling for the death sentence for Mubarak, others fearing weaknesses in the prosecution case could enable him to appeal successfully against his life sentence.