Mubarak Official Cleared of Charges by Egypt Court

A Cairo court on Tuesday acquitted former President Hosni Mubarak’s longtime interior minister of the last of several criminal charges that have kept him behind bars, opening the potential for his release.

The acquittal of the former minister, Habib el-Adly, is the latest in a long string of rulings since the 2013 military takeover that have exonerated former officials jailed after the Arab Spring uprising in Egypt. Other decisions, meanwhile, have sent many of the uprising’s young leaders to prison.

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