Egypt prosecutor appeals against Mubarak sons’ release
The Egyptian prosecutor's office has appealed against a decision to release the two sons of former dictator, Hosni Mubarak, on time served after they were given jail terms over corruption.
An unnamed judicial official said on Wednesday that the appeal was lodged in the Court of Cassation against the release order, which is yet to be implemented.
Back in October, a court ordered Alaa and Gamal Mubarak to be freed as it had taken into account the time spent in jail since their detention in 2011.
The official added that the prosecution has "noticed errors" in calculating the time spent in detention.
Farid al-Deeb, the lawyer of Mubarak’s sons, said last October that his clients should be set free because of time already spent in jail.
Mubarak and his sons were arrested months after the former dictator’s regime was toppled in a popular revolution.
In May 2015, a court handed them three-year jail terms each over embezzling 125 million Egyptian pounds (USD 16 million) from funds allocated to the maintenance of presidential palaces.
Alaa and Gamal Mubarak had been released for a short time in January 2015, after their pre-trial detention period ended. They were arrested again in May after the verdict was issued.
The pair should stand a separate trial on accusations of stock market manipulation.
The deposed dictator himself is being held at a military hospital in Cairo as he is being retried over involvement in the murder of hundreds of demonstrators demanding his ouster during the 2011 uprising.
After Mubarak's fall, many former regime officials were arrested and tried, and most of them were acquitted.
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