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Egypt's ex-interior minister sentenced
Habib al-Adly, the face of the crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, convicted for money laundering and profiteering.
Egypt's former interior minister, Habib al-Adly, has been sentenced to 12 years in jail for money laundering and profiteering, according to judicial sources.
Habib al-Adly, hated for the brutality of his police by the protesters who ousted President Hosni Mubarak in February, is one of the most senior Mubarak-era ministers to be put on trial.
His conviction in a Cairo court - coming as
Mubarak and his sons are being quizzed for abuse of office - highlights the desire of the generals who now rule Egypt to show their commitment to cracking down on abuse of power and corruption.
Al Jazeera's Rawya Rageh, reporting from Cairo, said the charges were "really at the heart of the request by the protest movement; protesters had been urging the prosecution of these men - former regime officials - in what has been described as a cleansing campaign of state institutions".
"This is going to be welcomed by the protest movement," said our correspondent.
"But still the country's new military leaders despite [their] attempts to bring back the money that was squandered by these men, and to hold these officials acountable, they're still being criticised for moving a little bit too slowly for the protesters' taste."
Al-Adly has been accused of selling land to an interior ministry contractor "illegally and received more than $700,000 dollars in kicks", our correspondent said.
"On Thursday the judge ordered that amount confiscated and also ordered the former interior minister to return more than $2.3m that he had illegally acquired in just three months before the revolution [which toppled Mubarak," she said.
"He was interior minister for 14 years and despite repeated campaigns against him by activists over a lot of accusations and not least of which is brutality and overseeing systematic torture al-Adly was never questioned and managed to retain his position for all these years."
Many Egyptians had been closely watching the fate of Adly, one of the most controversial members of the administration of Hosni Mubarak, because of the crackdown by his police force during the uprising.
Abdallah Schleifer, professor emeritus at the American University in Cairo, told Al Jazeera from London that the charges people are more concerned about involved ordering "security forces to open fire on unarmed demonstrators".
Schleifer said the former minister was "responsible for setting up snipers", adding that "basically the charges he has yet to stand trial for are far more serious".
Source:
Al Jazeera and agencies