Egypt’s Attorney General Nabil Sadeq has approved the release of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak on the prosecutor’s decision.
“The release decision was issued by North Cairo district attorney Ibrahim Saleh,” Mubarak’s advocate Farid al-Deeb said in statements on Monday, according to Egypt Independent report
“I expect Mubarak to be let out from the hospital within a day or two, to go back to his home in Heliopolis, which is the same house where he resided before taking office,” Deeb added.
Mubarak was cleared of murder charges this month in his final trial and was also acquitted of several cases charged against him except the presidential palaces case. The former leader has been in custody since the January 25 Revolution that toppled him in 2011.
In May 2015, the Cairo Criminal Court ruled that Mubarak and his sons, Alaa and Gamal, should be imprisoned for three years and fined more than LE125 million (7,058,216USD). The three were also obliged to repay over LE21 million (1,185,780USD). The prosecutor general had accused Mubarak and his sons of seizing funds and facilitating the seizure of LE125 million in the period between 2002 and 2011 under the pretext of renovating presidential palaces, while the amount was actually redirected to their personal property.
Deeb said on Monday that the prosecutor general agreed to his request for the time Mubarak spent in custody to be considered as his prison term in the presidential palaces case.
Mubarak was originally sentenced to life in prison in 2012 for conspiring to murder 239 demonstrators during the 18-day revolt – an uprising that sowed chaos and created a security vacuum but also inspired hope for democracy and social justice.
