Report: Former Egyptian Pres. Mubarak Expected to be Freed This Week, After Prosecutor Clears Him

[Hissyspit]

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]

1. Assuming he won't stay in Egypt?

Wonder where he'll go?

[jessie04]

2. I wouldnt be surprised .....

if he runs.

[MADem]

4. He's old, and ill. I doubt he can run for the bathroom. nt

[MADem]

3. I'd love to read more--do you have a LINK? nt

[Hissyspit]

5. No.

[MADem]

6. Thank you for editing the OP. nt

[Hissyspit]

7. The tweet in the OP is from Reuters

That's what the @ is from. Which is why I put Reuters as the source.

And now there's a link.

[dipsydoodle]

8. Full Reuters link here

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]

9. ". . . still faces a retrial on charges of complicity in the murder of protesters."

Hmmmm?

I'm pretty sure that isn't even a parking ticket offense anymore under the junta currently ruling Egypt.

[Igel]

13. Depends on whether they killed people or "terrorists."

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]

17. Under George W. Bush . . .

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]

10. Doesn't seem that long ago he was dying in hospital.

Dying to get out more like it.

[Demeter]

11. Just in Time to Be Reinstalled by the Military as the Puppet of Egypt

Isn't that nice? Isn't that convenient?

[marble falls]

12. He's tan, he's fit and he's rested, ready to take up the reins again!

[mazzarro]

14. Wow and now the true reason for the coup that should not be called a coup! -- n/t

[cosmicone]

15. Mubarak was a good leader.

I hope he is given asylum in Saudi Arabia or Switzerland.

[Comrade Grumpy]

16. Meet the new Egypt....