Hosni Mubarak, former president of Egypt, 86, will face Supreme Court in a case of corruption. The only charge left, after the cancellation Tuesday of a previous sentence of three years in prison.
His status remain uncertain, as M. Mubarak’s lawyer Farid al-Deeb told AFP his client had “served his time”. “He will remain in this military hospital because he is sick”, added the attorney. No judicial source confirmed former president is free however.
In November 2014, M. Mubarak had already benefited from a drop in call charges of killing of protesters who had brought him to life imprisonment in the first instance. But he remained in custody in a Cairo military hospital, as part of his corruption trial.
The President of the Court of Cassation delivered Tuesday the cancellation of a court judgment that sentenced Mubarak to three years in prison in May 2013 for embezzlement of more than 10 million euros of public money in the work of renovation of its presidential palaces. The senior judge also announced that he would be retried in the case, adding no further details on his status as a prisoner.
“Whatever my views on Mubarak are, legally, he should be released because he has served his sentence or he approaches the end and if he remains in custody, it can only be the result of political pressure,” estimated to AFP the lawyer Gamal Eid, head of the Egyptian NGO Arabic Network for Human Rights Information.
The highest Egyptian court also overturned the conviction to four years in prison for his two son, Alaa and Gamal Mubarak, in the same hijacking case.
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