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Egypt: Court fines Mubarak and Vodafone for communications blackouts

By APC for APCNews

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, 02 June 2011

APC welcomes the recent ruling of an Egyptian court that fined former president Mubarak and two of his aides $90 million for cutting internet and cell phones communications during the Egyptian revolution earlier this year.

Full article at http://www.apc.org/en/node/12427/

Photo by gwenflickr. Used with permission under Creative Commons licence 2.0

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