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23. Egypt court orders Mubarak released - sources

Reply to Tansy_Gold (Original post)

Wed Aug 21, 2013, 08:47 AM

Aug 2013

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/08/21/uk-egypt-protests-idUKBRE97514U20130821

(Reuters) - An Egyptian court ordered the release of former President Hosni Mubarak on Wednesday, a judicial and a security source said, meaning he could leave prison later in the day as there is no longer any legal grounds for his detention.

Mubarak, 85, is being retried on charges of ordering the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising that led to his downfall. However, he has already served out the maximum amount of pre-trial detention permitted in that case.

Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison last year for failing to prevent the killing of demonstrators. But a court accepted his appeal earlier this year and ordered a retrial.

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