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 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.
Mubarak, who ruled Egypt with an iron fist for 30 years, 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.
"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," announced judge Hassan Hassanein.
Mubarak was toppled during the Arab Spring uprisings which swept the
region in 2011 and raised hopes of democracy.
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But a 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.
(Reporting by Michael Georgy; Editing by Toby Chopra)
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