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Mubarak fined for Internet disruptions

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Cairo: Egypt’s ousted president Hosni Mubarak was on Tuesday ordered to pay USD 90 million together with his two ex-ministers for “damaging the economy” by enforcing a shutdown of telephone and Internet connections during the country’s popular uprising.An Egyptian judge fined Mubarak and two other former officials — former prime minister Ahmed Nazif and former minister of the interior Habib al-Adly — USD 90 million for government-imposed telecommunication disruptions during the uprising that was mainly triggered by online activists. Internet and mobile phone services were cut for days when hundreds of thousands took to the streets in January to demand the ousting of the regime. (PTI)

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