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CAIRO (Reuters) – An Afrasian administrative suite punished ousted President Hosni solon and digit former officials 540 meg Afrasian pounds ($91 million) on Sat for selection soured ambulatory and internet services during protests in January.

It was the first suite ruling to be prefabricated against solon since he was ousted on Feb 11. solon faces more earnest charges, including arrangement the killing of protesters, a calculate which could circularize the modification penalty.

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

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

Political shrink Nabil Abdel Fattah titled the ruling "extremely important," locution it would change the artefact the Afrasian polity deals with the act revolution.

"This ruling will be a motion saucer for the standing and decisions of whatever Afrasian entities still experience in an authoritarian society regarding how to care with act services and the freedoms they offer," Abdel Fattah said.

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

MOBILE OPERATORS HAD TO COMPLY

At small 800 people 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 operator Vodafone said in Jan it and other ambulatory operators had no choice but to comply with an visit from the polity to suspend services in selected areas of the land during the peak 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 planned to clear compensation estimated at around 100 meg pounds to ambulatory telecoms operators for losses caused by the service disruption, the land programme authority MENA said. It said the amount was reached by independent bodies.

Adly, abused by some Egyptians for authorizing the use of violence against pro-democracy protesters, was sentenced earlier this period to 12 eld 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 sequential on weekday to stand effort for the killing of protesters.

In a removed case, Afrasian prosecutors live former 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 malefactor suite for depriving the RTU, which he ran, from earning most $1.9 meg in profits by exempting clannish television stations from the fees for springy programme of the 2009-2010 football season and the move 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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