Hosni Mubarak was Egypt’s longest-serving president; he served six presidential terms. No one imagined that he would end up humiliated and imprisoned. He won every presidential election held, with little efforts, because the voting law guaranteed him the win, and even after the law was amended during his last elections, it was easy for him to win because the elections were a plotted play intending to guarantee him victory.

 

However, even with all the flaws in his legitimacy, Mubarak was never a tyrant ruler as has been said. During his reign, all his men worked in plain sight, including the opposition such as the Muslim Brotherhood, which had its own parliamentary representation, as well as its own media outlets and space of freedom.

 

Ahmed Maher from the April 6 Youth Movement, an opposition organization that was established three years before the Tahrir Square revolution, said that the plan of the revolutionary youth had not essentially intended to imprison former President Hosni Mubarak or have him sentenced to death. Those who participated in the revolution wanted to get a decent life, justice, freedom and human dignity.

 

Narrators of history

The Court of Cassation has finally acquitted Mubarak of the charges of killing demonstrators. Mubarak’s lawyer has said that these charges were not proven during the three last presidential terms after Mubarak rule, which saw the armed forces, the Muslim Brotherhood, and now President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi take power. I do not believe that innocence is important for President Mubarak for the sake of avoiding the death penalty, because he is 88 years old and he had been suffering from several illnesses since he was still in power. I do believe however that Mubarak is interested in being acquitted for the sake of history. Mubarak was a bad governor on an administrative level, his family and members of his party were known for corruption, but not killings.