The Cairo Criminal Court sentenced ousted president Hosni Mubarak to three years in a maximum security prison on Wednesday on corruption charges. Sons Gamal and Alaa were also sentenced to four years each in a maximum security prison. Collectively, they were fined EGP 125m and are required to repay EGP 21m. Mubarak and his two sons Alaa and Gamal are charged with acquiring almost EGP 126m from the presidential palace budget and using the money for the construction and development of family-owned assets. They are also charged with forging official documents and willfully damaging public property. Mubarak, 85, has remained in a military hospital in Cairo since he was freed from prison in August after the maximum pre-trial detention period expired. The former president was convicted in June 2012 of involvement in the murder of protesters during the 2011 uprising that forced him from office, but a court ordered a retrial in 2013 on technical grounds.
