Report: Former Egyptian Pres. Mubarak Expected to be Freed This Week, After Prosecutor Clears Him
Source: Reuters
@BreakingNews: Report: Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak expected to be freed this week, after prosecutor clears him, his lawyer says - @Reuters
Lawyer expects Egypt's Mubarak to be freed this week
Mon Aug 19, 2013 6:32am EDT
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)
Read more: http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCABRE97I0BO20130819
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)Wonder where he'll go?
jessie04
(1,528 posts)if he runs.
MADem
(135,425 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)That's what the @ is from. Which is why I put Reuters as the source.
And now there's a link.
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)Lawyer expects Egypt's Mubarak to be freed this week.
(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.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/08/19/uk-egypt-protests-mubarak-lawyer-idUKBRE97I0BS20130819
another_liberal
(8,821 posts)Hmmmm?
I'm pretty sure that isn't even a parking ticket offense anymore under the junta currently ruling Egypt.
Igel
(35,293 posts)Hard to know if the Army will check with Tamarrud first or just make assumptions. Or perhaps if Tamarrud will check with the Army before giving their opinion.
another_liberal
(8,821 posts)During the Presidency of George W. Bush, either you were with America or you were a terrorist. I guess that applies to the Egyptian generals' coup government now.
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)Dying to get out more like it.
Demeter
(85,373 posts)Isn't that nice? Isn't that convenient?
marble falls
(57,055 posts)mazzarro
(3,450 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)I hope he is given asylum in Saudi Arabia or Switzerland.