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BREAKING: Mubarak-era minister freed after four years: state

Published March 25th, 2015 - 03:32 GMT
Al Bawaba
Al Bawaba

After over four years behind bars, Mubarak-era interior minister Habib El-Adly was released, state news agency MENA reported.

El-Adly was recently acquitted on charges he had used his political influence to acquire illicit gains amounting to LE181 million ($23.7 million). 

Last year, a court acquitted El-Adly, six of his aides and former president Hosni Mubarak of complicity in the killing of protesters during the January 2011 uprising.

El-Adly served as Mubarak's minister of interior from 1997 till 2011.

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