Cario : According to Egyptian top prosecutor Hosni Mubarak and and his two sons will be held for 15 days pending a probe into abuse of authority and graft.
Earlier the former leader was hospitalised while being questioned, a statement from the prosecutor's office, posted on Facebook early on Wednesday, announced the detention of the
three men.It said the ongoing investigation was into allegations of corruption, the wasting of public money, and the abuse of position for personal gain.
Mubarak's sons Gamal and Alaa were driven away in a police van with drawn curtains as an angry crowd of 2,000 people pelted the car with water bottles, stones and their flip-flops, a sign of disrespect in the Arab world.
"Brothers, whatever you wanted, you have got ... 15 days," said Major-General Mohammed el-Khatib, the head of provincial security in the South Sinai.
Gamal, Mubarak's younger son, was a senior official in the ruling party and was widely seen as being groomed to succeed his father before popular protests brought down the regime.
His increasing role in the government over the last decade and the belief that he might succeed his father helped galvanise Egypt's protest movement.
