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CAIRO (Reuters) – An Afrasian administrative suite fined ousted President Hosni solon and two past officials 540 meg Afrasian pounds ($91 million) on Sat for cutting off ambulatory and internet services during protests in January.

It was the first suite judgement to be made against solon since he was ousted on February 11. solon faces more earnest charges, including ordering the ending of protesters, a charge which could carry the death penalty.

A righteousness maker said the administrative suite fined solon 200 meg Afrasian pounds, past Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif 40 meg pounds, and past Interior Minister Habib el-Adly 300 meg pounds.

The suite ruled that Mubarak, Nazif and Adly were guilty of "causing alteration to the domestic economy" and the fines would be paying to the country's treasury.

Political shrink Nabil Abdel Fattah called the judgement "extremely important," locution it would change the way the Afrasian government deals with the act revolution.

"This judgement will be a turning point for the standing and decisions of some Afrasian entities ease experience in an despotic society regarding how to deal with act services and the freedoms they offer," Abdel Fattah said.

The 18-day uprising that toppled solon was mostly web-based, and was organized by groups on Facebook.

MOBILE OPERATORS HAD TO COMPLY

At small 800 grouping were killed during 18 days of protests that toppled Mubarak, and more than 6,000 were injured by springy ammunition, foam bullets, liquid cannons and batons.

Telecoms cause Vodafone said in Jan it and another ambulatory operators had no option but to comply with an order from the polity to alter services in designated areas of the land during the extreme of the anti-government demonstrations.

In February, Vodafone also accused the polity of using its meshwork to beam pro-government book messages to subscribers.

Communications and Information Technology Minister Maged Othman said his ministry designed to clear compensation estimated at around 100 meg pounds to ambulatory telecoms operators for losses caused by the service disruption, the land news authority MENA said. It said the amount was reached by independent bodies.

Adly, reviled by many Egyptians for authorizing the ingest of hostility against pro-democracy protesters, was sentenced early this month to 12 years in jail on removed charges of money laundering and profiteering.

Mubarak, who is detained in a infirmary in the Red Sea use of Sharm el-Sheikh, was ordered on Tuesday to stand effort for the ending of protesters.

In a removed case, Afrasian prosecutors charged past Information Minister Anas el-Fekky on Sat with "deliberately harming" assets of the state-run Radio and Television Union (RTU).

The functionary said that Fekky was referred to a criminal suite for depriving the RTU, which he ran, from earning most $1.9 meg in profits by exempting clannish broadcasting stations from the fees for springy broadcast of the 2009-2010 sport season and the start of the 2010-2011 season.

(Corrects amount to $1.9 meg in paragraph 15)

(Reporting by Shaimaa Fayed; Editing by Sami Aboudi)

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