BEIJING, Aug. 20 (Xinhuanet) -- An Egyptian court has ruled that former president Hosni Mubarak can no longer be held on a corruption charge. He was facing charges of looting funds allocated for maintaining the presidential palaces.

Mubarak's lawyer says the ex-president should be freed by the end of the week.

Held in detention since April 2011, Mubarak was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison in June last year for his failure to stop the killing of some 900 protesters in the 18-day unrest against his rule.

His sentence was later overturned on appeal, and he is now being retried, along with his security chief and six top police commanders.

(Source: cntv.cn)