ICEJ News reports: Small but angry protests broke out at several universities in Egypt on Sunday following an announcement that the courts had dropped criminal charges against ousted former president Hosni Mubarak relating to the deaths of several protesters during the 2011 uprising which led to the toppling of his regime. Charges of corruption and other offenses against Mubarak’s sons and some of his senior aides were also dismissed over the weekend in what many analysts said was a sign that the current regime of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi wants to finally put the tumult of the last few years behind it, regardless of the cost. In related news, the self-described human rights group Amnesty International released a report last week accusing the Sisi regime of violating international law by forcing hundreds of families from their homes in order to clear a “buffer zone” along Egypt’s border with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.
