Egyptians Dismayed As Ex-President Hosni Mubarak Regains Freedom

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has been freed from detention, six years after being overthrown and is back home. He was ordered freed yesterday after Egypt's top appeals court cleared him over the deaths of protesters in the 2011 uprising.

88 years old Mubarak served as the fourth President of Egypt from 1981 to 2011. On 13 April 2011, a prosecutor ordered Mubarak to be detained for 15 days of questioning about allegations of corruption and abuse of power. Mubarak was then ordered to stand trial on charges of negligence for failing to halt the killing of peaceful protesters during the revolution.

His release on yesterday crowned the crushing of those hopes for change, and the enduring disappointment of the Egyptians who had risked their lives to topple him — even if many now say the challenge is far bigger than a single man.

“At this point, I really don’t care,” said Ahmed Harara, an activist who lost his sight when he was shot by the police, first in the right eye and then in the left, during demonstrations in Cairo in 2011. “I realized years ago that this is not just about Mubarak and his regime, it’s an entire system that has now resurrected itself.” Mr. Mubarak’s release nonetheless was a politically delicate moment for the current president and former top general, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who was taking a calculated risk that it would not incite a backlash.

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Olufemi Adekunle Rotty and 7 others

Johnson Ahile

it seem like the current president is a friend of mubarakk

Endy Edeson

many Egyptians are thinking the same way @ahile

Izirigah Nwafor

endy that man use jazz to free himself

Endy Edeson

nwafor: i don't believe in spiritual rituals. so it's a legal process as far as everyone is concerned

Izirigah Nwafor

ok. ooo

Abulus Thompson

One day rev king wil be released too

Endy Edeson

@abulus; Ha! Nigeria will boil that day ooo

Abulus Thompson

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Endy Edeson

You are right. Anything Can Happen In Nigeria.

Abulus Thompson

Endy i heard that National assembly has refused to pass anti money lundering act into law to enable FG to make use of the recovered looted fund do u have any idea on this.

Endy Edeson

Abulus: The National Assembly will never attend to such important bill. Every now and then, it's either Dino Melaye certificate or Ali's uniform you hear during plenary. If they pass the anti money laundering act, it might backfire at some of them

Abulus Thompson

No wonder but it's an important bill to a common man if passed into law so how do the FG now acces those funds and put it into use because according to what i heard is as the bill is not passed into law else those cases in court has to be judged til end before the use of those funds will come to play and that will take a whole number of years.