07/16/12: Al Jazeera reports Egypt’s prosecutor general has ordered convicted former President Hosni Mubarak back to prison nearly a month after he was moved to a military hospital in Cairo after reportedly suffering a stroke. Abdel Meguid Mahmud “has issued an order to transfer … Mubarak from the Maadi Armed Forces Hospital to Tora prison hospital after an improvement in his health,” his office said in a statement on Monday. On July 4, Mahmud had ordered the formation of a committee of medical experts to look into the 84-year-old Mubarak’s health and determine whether he could be moved back to prison, deputy prosecutor general Adel al-Saeed said. The doctors agreed that “Mubarak’s health is currently stable with medication, and it is considered good for someone of his age,” Saeed said.

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