The human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tawakkol Karman has expressed disappointment at the Egyptian judiciary after Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak had been cleared of the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising that swept him from power. 

In a statement published recently in social media, Karman wrote to say, "The Egyptian judiciary has set a new record in falling after it issued a final ruling to acquits former president Hosni Mubarak on charges of killing protesters.”

Egypt’s Court of Cassation on Thursday issued a final ruling acquitting the deposed president Hosni Mubarak of charges of killing protesters during the 2011. 

The court’s decision stressed that there is no longer room for an appeal or a retrial of the 88-year-old former dictator who ruled over his country for three decades.

He was convicted in June 2012 and sentenced to life in prison, but six months later his sentence was overturned and in 2014 all charges were dropped because of a legal technicality.