Egyptian court sentences Mubarak and sons to three years in jail

An Egyptian court sentenced former president Hosni Mubarak and his two sons to three years in jail without parole on Saturday in the retrial of a corruption case. Mubarak was sentenced to three years in prison last May for diverting public funds earmarked to renovate presidential palaces and using the money to upgrade family properties. His two sons were given four-year jail terms in the same case. However, in January, Egypt’s high court overturned the convictions.

The ruling of the court is three years in prison without parole for Mohamed Hosni Mubarak and Gamal Mohamed Hosni Mubarak and Alaa Mohamed Hosni Mubarak.

Judge Hassan Hassanein

Mubarak and his sons Gamal and Alaa may not have to serve any jail time for those corruption charges because they already spent that amount of time in prison in other cases. An earlier court decision to drop charges against Mubarak of conspiring to kill protesters in the uprising focused in Cairo’s Tahrir Square and the release from jail of some of his associates has cast doubt over Egypt’s political transformation.

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