I am telling you, as a president of the country, I do not find it a mistake to listen to you and to respond to your requests and demands. But it is shameful and I will not, nor will ever accept to hear foreign dictations, whatever the source might be or whatever the context it came in.

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.