I am telling you that I am very grateful and am so proud of you for being a symbolic generation that is calling for change to the better, that is dreaming for a better future, and is making the future.

In a move widely seen as political persecution Nour was convicted of forgery and sentenced to five years at hard labor on 24 December 2005. misuse of influence and deliberately wasting public funds and unlawfully making private financial gains and profits. Wealth and allegations of personal corruption
In February 2011 ABC News reported that experts believed the personal wealth of Mubarak and his family to be between US$40 billion and $70 billion founded on military contracts made during his time as an air force officer.

His almost thirty-year presidency made him Egypt's longest-serving ruler since Muhammad Ali Pasha. Mubarak was appointed Vice President of Egypt in 1975 and assumed the presidency on 14 October 1981 following the assassination of President Anwar Sadat.