CAIRO: Opposition politician Abul-Ela Mady was released after nearly two years of pretrial detention, Mady’s son Ahmed said, two days after a court ordered him set free.

Mady was a supporter of ousted President Muhammad Mursi, who was removed from power by the army following mass protests against his rule in 2013.

Mady was detained on charges related to violence during protests between supporters and opponents of Mursi and his Muslim Brotherhood in July 2013. The leader of the Muslim Brotherhood Mohamed Badie is also a defendant in the case, judicial sources said. Also on Thursday, a court sentenced a police officer to five years in jail in his retrial for the deaths of 37 pro-Mursi prisoners who suffocated from tear gas, a court official said.