Tycoon pardoned

An Egyptian real estate tycoon jailed for the murder of a Lebanese pop diva was released on Friday as part of a presidential pardon for hundreds of detainees. A report on the EWN site notes that President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi pardoned 502 prisoners to mark the Eid al-Fitr holiday. Hisham Talaat Moustafa, who was sentenced to 15 years in jail in 2010 for the murder of Suzanne Tamim, was among those pardoned on health grounds. Tamim, Moustafa's lover, was murdered in July 2008 at her Dubai apartment by a policeman Moustafa had paid $2m.