Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak -- overthrown during Egypt's Arab Spring riots in 2011 -- was freed today (May 9, 2015) after a Cairo court upheld a previous three-year sentence for corruption charges, a term he's satisfied given time already served, the Washington Examiner website reports.
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 in Egypt that became known as the beginning stages of Arab Spring, which spread to other Middle East countries.
The court fined Mubarak and his sons, Gamal and Alaa, for several million dollars to address embezzlement charges. 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.
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