Local media reported that he had breakfast with family and friends at his mansion in Cairo’s Heliopolis district. Egypt’s highest appeals court cleared him earlier this month of charges that he ordered the killings of the hundreds of people who died in protests against him. He remains under investigation in other corruption cases and is therefore not allowed to travel, said Yasser Ahmed, the lawyer representing the victims’ families against Mubarak. When Mubarak stepped down as president, national euphoria soon gave way to dissatisfaction with his democratically elected successor, Mohammad Morsi. A former general, Sisi has led a crackdown on Islamists and many of the pro-democracy activists who had once fought against Mubarak.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 24, 2017 13:41 UTC