CAIRO: Talaat Sadat, a nephew of late President Anwar Sadat who was jailed last year for alleging that army officers were involved in his uncle's 1981 assassination, was freed on Tuesday after serving nine months.

An opposition member of parliament, he was jailed for a year on Oct 31, 2006 by a military tribunal over comments he made about his uncle's assassination by Islamist soldiers.

The lawmaker from the small opposition Al-Ahrar party was accused of “spreading false rumours and insulting the armed forces” after he alleged that senior officers were involved in the murder, during a military parade. In several interviews marking the 25th anniversary of the killing, Sadat suggested that President Hosni Mubarak — the then vice president who has ruled Egypt ever since — might also have been involved.—AFP