Dozens of fresh complaints against released Mubarak

The Egyptian prosecutor-general's office has received dozens of new complaints against former President Hosni Mubarak, who was recently released following almost two years in detention. Mubarak was released from Cairo's Tora Prison on Thursday after a court accepted an appeal filed by the former president's lawyers against charges that he had received millions of Egyptian pounds worth of "gifts" from state-owned daily Al-Ahram while in office. In the immediate wake of his release, dozens of fresh complaints have been filed with the prosecutor-general's office, accusing Mubarak -- toppled by Egypt's 2011 popular uprising -- of "torture and violations of Egyptian citizens' rights in his former capacity as the head of the Supreme Council of Police," a judicial source told the Anadolu Agency on Friday. Among those who have filed the fresh complaints against Mubarak are prominent lawyer Hamed Sediqq and the Cairo-based Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR), the source said. In its complaint, the EOHR called for "opening immediate investigations into all the complaints previously filed with [Mubarak-era] prosecutor-general Abdel-Meguid Mahmoud regarding cases of torture and police abuse," he added.