Judge Hamed Abdullah`s decision Wednesday against the prosecution`s appeal raises calls for new investigations into the Feb. 2, 2011 assault, in which pro-Mubarak supporters charged into a sit-in in Cairo`s Tahrir Square on camels and horses, setting off clashes that lasted into the next day and left nearly a dozen dead.
Judges argued witnesses were unreliable and evidence against the defendants, some of the biggest names in the Mubarak regime, was weak, a common explanation in the trials of officials held responsible for the killing of over 800 protesters during the uprising.
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