After the arrest of six years .. Egyptian authorities release the advisor Mahmoud al-Khudairi

Mohamed Seif Eldin-Cairo

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian authorities on Wednesday released Chancellor Mahmoud al-Khudairi after six years in jail for two political cases, a human rights source told Al Jazeera Net.

Al-Khudairi spent those six years pending two cases in which he was accused of taking part in the abduction and torture of a citizen in Tahrir Square during the January 25, 2011 revolution, while in the second case known as "insulting the judiciary", which dates back to 2012 and 2013, he was sentenced. He was sentenced to 3 years in prison with a fine.

Counselor Mahmoud al-Khudairi was a member of the Court of Cassation, the highest court in Egypt, and was elected president of the Alexandria Judges Club in early May 2004.

Al-Khudairi is considered one of the most prominent leaders of the independence movement of the judiciary.

Al-Khudairi was a member of the Egyptian Judges Movement, which called for amending the law of the judiciary in Egypt to ensure its independence and rid it of what it called the interference of the executive authority in the work of the judiciary.

Al-Khudairi resigned on September 20, 2009 from the post of Chief of the Civil Thursday Department in the Court of Cassation, after 46 years in the judicial service.

Following the January 25 revolution, he was elected to the House of Representatives and became Chairman of the House Legislative Committee.

Al-Khudairi was arrested on November 24, 2013, after the overthrow of late President Mohamed Morsi.