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CAIRO - Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, overthrown in a popular uprising in 2011 and languishing in jail since then, could be free in days after a Cairo court decided Monday he could not be legally held in a corruption case, his lawyer told The Globe and Mail.

“He will be released within 48 hours, the day after tomorrow, God willing,” said his lawyer Farid El Deeb.

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