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The two sons of Hosni Mubarak have been released from jail, a day after the fourth anniversary of the uprising that ousted the former Egyptian president. | The two sons of Hosni Mubarak have been released from jail, a day after the fourth anniversary of the uprising that ousted the former Egyptian president. |
Alaa and Gamal Mubarak walked free from Cairo's Torah Prison early on Monday and headed to their homes in the suburb of Heliopolis, security officials said. | |
Last week, a court ordered that the two men be freed pending retrial along with their father for embezzlement. | |
It found that they had already served the maximum pre-trial detention period. | |
Although their release had been expected, it follows deadly clashes on Sunday between police and anti-government protesters commemorating the uprising. | |
Power brokers | |
Some of the anger that led to Mr Mubarak's overthrow was fuelled by the widespread belief that he and his sons had illegally amassed vast amounts of wealth. | |
Gamal, 51, was a leading member of the former ruling National Democratic Party and was widely seen as his father's heir apparent. Alaa, 53, was a leader among the business elite. | |
Both were detained along with their father in April 2011 and subsequently charged with corruption, embezzlement and insider trading. | |
In May, they were sentenced to four years in prison for embezzlement, after being found guilty of fraudulently billing the government for $14m (£9.3m) of personal expenses. | |
But that conviction was overturned earlier this month by the Court of Cassation, which found that legal procedures had not been followed properly and ordered a retrial. | |
The brothers were acquitted of the separate corruption charge - which related to the sale of a plot of land - in December 2013, while the insider trading case has yet to go to trial. | |
Hosni Mubarak's conviction for embezzlement was also overturned in the last remaining case keeping him behind bars. | |
The ailing 86-year-old is residing at a military hospital in the southern Cairo suburb of Maadi, and it is not clear when he will be released. | |
Charges of conspiring in the killing of hundreds of protesters during the uprising that ended his rule in 2011 were dropped in November. |
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