The high court in Egypt has decided to overturn the last conviction involving the nation’s former ruler. The court proceedings were not followed correctly in the case against the 83-year-old Hosni Mubarak. The result will be a retrial.

This can be beneficial to Mubarak, considering he has already served time. He has been incarcerated for over three years for the corruption case which has been overturned this past Tuesday. Al Ahram quoted a judiciary source stating that he will be released “because there are no other cases he is being currently being tried in.”

Mubarak was detained last May and sentenced to three years for relocating public’s finances designated for presidential palace renovations. These funds were also to be used for family property upgrades. Mubarak’s two sons were also included in the sentencing for up to four years on the same charges. The corruption case is part of the charges which are incorporated with Mubarak’s act of embezzling coffers over a decade toward the end of Mubarak’s rule.

Due to his physical health, Mubarak has been serving his time in a military hospital in Cairo’s Maadi district. He is still being detained, despite many sources stating that he will be released very soon. His upcoming release, in spite of many of his political opponents still incarcerated, will be a major impact towards the activist who are fighting for his failure.

The result of the uprising in 2011 had given Mubarak rule over Egypt, making him the longest running ruler since Muhammad Ali Pasha. During the uprisings he was tried and convicted of hundreds of murders of anti-government opponents. Tuesday’s decision came from the courts judgment in late November to eliminate all charges relating to Mubarak’s involvement in the murders.

Khaled Dawoud, spokesperson for the Doustour party, 10 of whose members are imprisoned for participating in peaceful protests, said that after the release of authorities accused of slaughtering demonstrators and Mubarak associates, and the acquittal over the murdering of protesters, this was not stunning news. Dawoud says he does not think Mubarak is really the issue any more, since four years ago the Egyptian people pronounced their decision against him. Numerous Egyptians who survived Mubarak’s tenet perspective it as a time of dictatorship and friend free enterprise.

His oust prompted Egypt’s first free decision. Mohamed Morsi, the Islamist victor, was removed in 2013 by then-armed force boss Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, emulating challenges against his ideas and principles.

Sisi, who went ahead to win the presidential decision last May, initiated a crackdown on Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood. Security strengths have gathered together a huge number of Brotherhood supporters. Universal feedback has been drawn as courts have used mass trials to send hundreds to their death. Liberal activists have likewise ended up on the wrong side with the new rulers of Egypt, facing prison for infringing upon a law that prohibits the freedom to dissent.

By differentiation, Mubarak-time figures are gradually being cleared of charges and an arrangement of laws controlling political flexibility have raised apprehension among activists that the rights they won amid 18 days of challenge in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, the typical heart of the unrest, are disintegrating.