Mubarak stays detained despite release order

Mubarak stays detained despite release order
Mon Apr 15, 2013 20:13:45

Ousted Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak will stay in detention despite a judge ordering his release on bail pending because he still faces other charges.

On Monday, a judge ordered Mubarak's release on bail for charges over his complicity in killing of protesters but this decision did not cancel his detention due to ongoing separate charges, the officials said.


Mubarak, 84, has spent the maximum legal time of two years in detention since being charged with former Interior Minister Habib al-Adli for their involvement in the killing of protesters in the 2011 uprising that unseated him.


Mubarak's case is facing an indefinite delay after a retrial was aborted on Saturday when the presiding judge withdrew from the case.


Mubarak, who ruled Egypt for almost 30 years before being toppled by 18 days of unrest, is also facing an investigation over financial corruption charges, Egyptian media has reported.


He has been staying in a military hospital from where he was flown by helicopter to the court on Saturday.


The prosecutor general's office on Saturday ordered an urgent medical report on the former president to determine whether he was now fit enough to be sent to prison where he had stayed before.

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