Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif speaks during a parliament session in Cairo May 11, 2010. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El-Ghany
CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court ordered the release of former Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif on Thursday because of a limit on pre-trial detention in a corruption case for which he had been held since the revolution that toppled Hosni Mubarak.
Nazif, who still faces a retrial, is the highest-profile Mubarak-era official to be freed in corruption cases which have failed to produce convictions that stick - prompting frustrated opponents of the old regime to criticise the justice system.
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