Egyptian prosecutor allows for release of Hosni Mubarak:lawyer

An Egyptian prosecutor allowed today for Hosni Mubarak to be released, his lawyer said, after an appeals court acquitted the ex-president of involvement in the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising.

"He can go home now when the doctors decide he is able to," Farid al-Deeb said, adding that Mubarak is banned from leaving Egypt pending an ongoing graft investigation.

Mubarak has been in detention at a military hospital in Cairo.