Former Egyptian Pres. Mubarak Expected to be Freed This Week, After Prosecutor Clears Him

[MaxShimba]

CAIRO (Reuters) - Hosni Mubarak, the former Egyptian president overthrown in an uprising in 2011, will be released from jail in the next 48 hours after a prosecutor cleared him in a corruption case, his lawyer Fareed El-Deeb told Reuters on Monday.

He was speaking after judicial authorities ordered Mubarak released in one of the remaining corruption cases against him.

The only legal grounds for Mubarak's continued detention rest on another corruption case which will be cleared up later this week, Deeb said.

"All we have left is a simple administrative procedure that should take no more than 48 hours. He should be freed by the end of the week," Deeb said.

Mubarak, 85, still faces a retrial on charges of complicity in the murder of protesters during the 2011 revolt.

(Reporting by Lin Noueihed; Editing by Tom Perry)


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[bona]

western democracy at its peak.....

 

[Descartes]

Good if they free him. At 85 he better spend the rest of his life with his family pondering the deeds and misdeeds to Egyptians when in office. Too late for him to learn any lesson.

 

[MaxShimba]

I hope he is given asylum in Saudi Arabia or Switzerland.

 

[Eiyer]

I hope he is given asylum in Saudi Arabia or Switzerland.

Anaweza kuja bongo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Somi]

alikuwa mkuu wa mwanajeshi kabla ya kuchukua uraisi chini ya raisi anwar sadaat inawezekana hili kundi la sasa la wanajeshi linaloongoza misri ni watu wake wamempa upendeleo angalau kwa kutoa nafasi vipengele kadhaa vya sheria vitumike kumwachia