Mubarak sentenced to life in prison

Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has been sentenced to life in prison for protest murders during the uprising that overthrew him last year, AFP has reported.

The ex-president arrived on Saturday by helicopter at a court where the Chief Judge Ahmed Rifaat delivered the verdict. Wearing dark sunglasses, he was then transported to the courthouse by an ambulance then taken inside on a stretcher.

Also given a life term for the killings was Mubarak's former interior minister Habib al-Adly, while six former police commanders were acquitted.

Meanwhile, corruption charges against Mubarak's sons, Alaa and Gamal, were dropped.