Anas El-Fiky, Egypt's minister of information during former president Hosni Mubarak's rule, was acquitted of corruption by a Cairo criminal court in his retrial earlier Wednesday.

In February 2014, El-Fiky was given one-year prison sentence and was fined EGP 1,800,000 after being convicted of acquiring illicit gains amounting to EGP 33,400,000 during his career in the government from 2002 to 2011.

In January 2016, the Court of Cassation accepted his appeal against the court's ruling and ordered his retrial and release from detention. 

El-Fiky served as Mubarak's information minister from 2004 to 12 February 2011, resigning the day after Mubarak was ousted.