Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, overthrown during Egypt’s Arab Spring, was freed Saturday after a Cairo court upheld a previous three-year prison sentence for corruption charges, a term he’s satisfied given time already served.
The Cairo Court of Appeals gave the go-ahead to free Egypt’s former president, who stepped aside in 2011 after 30 years of rule during protests that became known as the beginning stages of the Arab Spring.
The court fined Mubarak and his sons, Gamal and Alaa, for several millions dollars to address embezzlement charges. But Gamal and Alaa also saw their sentences reduced by the court.
Mubarak had originally been sentenced to life in prison in 2012. But he got another trial the next year in which the three-year prison sentence for embezzlement was levied in May 2014. He was cleared of those charges in November 2014, but then was retried.
