Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Former President Hosni Mubarak and his family under house arrest

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his family can not leave the country, according to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces who took power in Egypt on 11 February, as they are under house arrest. The military rejected the reports that claimed that the dictator had traveled to Saudi Arabia for medical treatment, noting: "He and his family are forced to reside in Egypt." On 8 March, an Egyptian court confirmed the freezing of assets of former president and his family and banned from leaving the country that fell on them and had been issued on 28 February by the Egyptian general prosecutor, Abdel Magid Mahmoud.

Mubarak withdrew to the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh on the Sinai peninsula, after announcing his resignation on 11 February, after 18 days of mass protests that called for his ouster.

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