An Egyptian court has ordered a retrial in an embezzlement case against Hosni Mubarak, dropping the only remaining conviction faced by the ousted former president and potentially leading to his release.
Mubarak was sentenced to three years in prison in May for stealing public funds to renovate family properties.
He has been serving that sentence in a military hospital in Cairo.
Now a retrial has been ordered, and judicial sources say Mubarak could walk free as no convictions against him remain.
In November, another court dropped charges against Mubarak for conspiring to kill protesters in the 2011 uprising that removed him from power and cleared him in two graft cases.
Mubarak will remain in detention for the time being, pending a decision of the public prosecution or the court that retries them.
