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Egyptian prosecutor allows for release of Hosni Mubarak

Published: 13 Mar 2017 - 04:44 pm | Last Updated: 15 Nov 2021 - 04:29 am
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AFP

Cairo: An Egyptian prosecutor allowed Monday for Hosni Mubarak to be released, his lawyer said, after an appeals court acquitted the ex-president of involvement in the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising.

"He can go home now when the doctors decide he is able to," Farid al-Deeb said, adding that Mubarak is banned from leaving Egypt pending an ongoing graft investigation.

Mubarak has been in detention at a military hospital in Cairo.