With the upheaval going on in Egypt, I would have thought Mubarak would be the last thing on the mind of any Egyptian right now. Really though, I never thought he would see the light of day again after the 2011 revolution. But now he’s being released from jail after being cleared of a corruption charge, something that sounds miniscule compared to what has gone on since his ouster.
I just wonder how they keep him alive…
FOX NEWS – Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will be released from jail in the next 48 hours after a prosecutor cleared him of a corruption charge, his lawyer Fareed El-Deeb told Reuters.
Judicial authorities ordered Mubarak released in one of the remaining corruption cases against him, which alleged he and his town sons embezzled funds for presidential palaces, the Associated Press reports.
According to Deeb, the only legal grounds for the ousted president’s detention rest on one other corruption case which is slated to be cleared up this week.
Mubarak has been previously ordered released in two other court cases against him — the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising that toppled him and another in case, on illegal earnings.
He is on retrial for the protesters’ killing but cannot be held in custody anymore because of a two-year limit pending a final verdict.