Lawyer expects Egypt’s Mubarak to be freed this week

• Kuwait to deport nine Egyptians over protest against Cairo crackdown – security source

  KUWAIT – Kuwait plans to deport nine Egyptians who demonstrated against the Egyptian army crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood that has killed hundreds of people, a security source said on Monday.

  Kuwait, a major oil exporter allied to the United States, gave Egypt $4 billion in aid last month. It was part of a $12 billion package offered by Gulf Arab states to shore up Egypt’s economy after the army ousted the country’s first freely elected president, the Brotherhood’s Mohamed Mursi, following protests against his rule.

  Dozens of Egyptians joined Kuwaiti activists who had organised demonstrations at the Egyptian Consulate and the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait last week to protest against the deaths caused by the forcible breaking up of pro-Mursi protest camps in Cairo.

  The security source, who declined to be identified, said the nine slated for deportation were “prominent participants suspected of incitement and chanting hostile slogans”.

  He did not rule out further expulsions, saying the investigation was still going on.

  Gulf Arab states often show little tolerance towards expatriates taking part in unlicensed protests.

  “For us, gatherings are banned, regardless of the reasons or the motives behind them,” the security source told Reuters.

• Map of Cairo locating a prison on the outskirts of the capital where 38 people died on Sunday. REUTERS/Reuters Graphics

• More detail on Mubarak:

  CAIRO – Hosni Mubarak, the former Egyptian president overthrown in an uprising in 2011, will be released from jail in the next 48 hours after a prosecutor cleared him in a corruption case, his lawyer Fareed El-Deeb has told Reuters.

  He was speaking after judicial authorities ordered Mubarak released in one of the remaining corruption cases against him.

  The only legal grounds for Mubarak’s continued detention rest on another corruption case which will be cleared up later this week, Deeb said.

  “All we have left is a simple administrative procedure that should take no more than 48 hours. He should be freed by the end of the week,” Deeb said.

  Mubarak, 85, still faces a retrial on charges of complicity in the murder of protesters during the 2011 revolt.

  Reuters