Gamal and Alaa Mubarak were detained in 2011 after their father stood down as president and will be freed due to time already servedA court in Egypt has ordered the release from prison of the sons of the country’s former president Hosni Mubarak,taking into account the time they absorb already served.
The Cairo criminal court ordered the release of Gamal, Mubarak’s one-time heir apparent, or his brother Alaa,a wealthy businessman, after they were both sentenced in May to three years in prison in a corruption case dubbed the presidential palaces affair by the Egyptian media.
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Source: theguardian.com