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.
In June 2012, Mubarak was sentenced to life imprisonment by an Egyptian court for failing to prevent the killing of more than 900 protesters during the 2011 uprising that forced him from power. In January 2013, the court ordered a retrial granting an appeal of the former autocrat’s life sentence.
"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.