{"id":2580,"date":"2014-06-13T11:09:21","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T04:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=2580"},"modified":"2014-06-13T11:09:21","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T04:09:21","slug":"egyptian-court-acquitted-former-interior-minister-al-adly-of-charges-of-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egyptian-court-acquitted-former-interior-minister-al-adly-of-charges-of-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian court acquitted former interior minister al-Adly of charges of corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Egyptian court acquitted the former interior minister under longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak of charges of corruption and money laundering Thursday, a judicial official said.<\/p>\n<p>The verdict in the retrial of Habib el-Adly lifted a 12-year jail term and 15 million Egyptian pound ($2.5 million) fine issued by a court in May 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Adly still faces other retrials, including one on charges of killing protesters during the 2011 popular uprising that toppled Mubarak, as well as another corruption-related case.<\/p>\n<p>The verdict acquitting al-Adly comes one day after a prominent activist of the 2011 revolt was sentenced to 15 years in jail after being convicted of organizing an unauthorized protest and assaulting a policeman. The sentence against Alaa Abdel-Fattah and 24 others drew criticism from international and local human rights groups.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first conviction of a prominent activist since former army chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi took office as president on Sunday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/egypt-rights-groups-condemn-conviction-activist-24104450\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Africa News North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Egyptian court acquitted the former interior minister under longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak of charges of corruption and money laundering Thursday, a judicial official said. The verdict in the retrial of Habib el-Adly lifted a 12-year jail term and 15 million Egyptian pound ($2.5 million) fine issued by a court in May 2011. Al-Adly still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338,299],"tags":[258,256,616,542,4697,415,617,543,257,4694,254],"class_list":["post-2580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","category-north-africa","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-al-adly","tag-alaa-abdel-fattah","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-habib-el-adly","tag-hosni-mubarak","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}