{"id":93946,"date":"2017-03-14T09:41:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T13:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=93946"},"modified":"2017-03-14T09:41:30","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T13:41:30","slug":"egyptian-attorney-general-orders-release-of-former-president-mubarak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/03\/14\/egyptian-attorney-general-orders-release-of-former-president-mubarak\/","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian attorney general orders release of former president Mubarak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_93947\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93947\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Hosni_Mubarak_ritratto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-93947\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Hosni_Mubarak_ritratto.jpg\" alt=\"An Egyptian attorney general ordered on Monday the release of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak after he served his maximum pre-trial detention sentence, reported the official Ahram newspaper. (Photo by Presidenza della Repubblica [Attribution])\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Hosni_Mubarak_ritratto.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Hosni_Mubarak_ritratto-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Hosni_Mubarak_ritratto-768x960.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-93947\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Egyptian attorney general ordered on Monday the release of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak after he served his maximum pre-trial detention sentence, reported the official Ahram newspaper. (Photo by Presidenza della<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3AHosni_Mubarak_ritratto.jpg\"> Repubblica [Attribution]<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>CAIRO\u2014An Egyptian attorney general ordered on Monday the release of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak after he served his maximum pre-trial detention sentence, reported the official Ahram newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2014 Mubarak was sentenced to three years in jail after he was found guilty of appropriating millions of Egyptian pounds which had been allocated to the presidential palaces.<\/p>\n<p>The attorney general&#8217;s release order declared that Mubarak served his term during the pre-trial detention period, according to Ahram.<\/p>\n<p>Back in April 2011, an Egyptian prosecutor ordered Mubarak&#8217;s detention for 15 days pending an investigation into charges of corruption and abuse of power.<\/p>\n<p>The former president subsequently was tried for murdering protestors who demonstrated against his rule in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Mubarak, 89, spent his entire detention period at a military hospital in Cairo.<\/p>\n<p>On March 2, an Egyptian upper court issued a final verdict affirming Mubarak&#8217;s acquittal of the murder charges of protestors demonstrating in the 2011 uprising which ended his 30-year rule.<\/p>\n<p>Mubarak has previously been acquitted of similar charges in 2015, however the prosecution later appealed the verdict.<\/p>\n<p>After Monday&#8217;s court order, Mubarak will soon be able to freely leave the hospital in a matter of hours following the finalization of procedures as no other charges exist against him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAIRO\u2014An Egyptian attorney general ordered on Monday the release of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak after he served his maximum &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":93947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,17],"tags":[16604],"class_list":["post-93946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-w","tag-hosni-mubarak","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}