CAIRO - A team of doctors examined ailing Egyptian opposition leader Ayman Nur Saturday as a step toward a ruling on his condition that could see him freed from jail early, his wife said. “They examined him for more than two hours, saying they would make a determination within a few weeks after studying his entire medical file,” Gamila Ismail told AFP. She did not explain why they had told her it would take so long.| It's a thick file. |
Press reports have suggested doctors who examine Nur could recommend his release through a presidential pardon around the time of Eid al-Fitr, the festival marking the end of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, later this month.
Nur, a lawyer, mounted an unsuccessful electoral campaign against Mubarak, who was re-elected to a fifth term in September 2005. He was sentenced last December to five years in prison after being convicted of forging affidavits for the creation of his Ghad (Tomorrow) party. The United States has described his imprisonment as a ”miscarriage of justice.”