Egypt releases Ayman Nur

CAIRO: Egypt’s public prosecutor has freed the country’s best-known political dissident, Ayman Nur, on health grounds, a judicial official told AFP yesterday.

“The public prosecutor decided to free Ayman Nur for health reasons,” the official said. A security official said Nur, a 44-year-old diabetic, was already at his Cairo home with his wife Gamila, who has fought relentlessly for his release.