Police not guilty of killing protesters

An Egyptian court has acquitted 14 policemen charged with killing protesters during last year’s uprising.

The verdict is the latest in what activists claim to be a pattern of acquittals for police blamed for the deaths of nearly 850 people during the 18-day revolt that toppled the country’s leader, Hosni Mubarak.

A Cairo court yesterday found the policemen not guilty of shooting protesters on 28 January 2011, one of the most violent days of the uprising.