Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has been freed from incarceration, six years after his ouster in the Arab Spring of 2011.
Mubarak left a military hospital in Cairo on Friday where he had spent much of his detention before heading for his home in the northern suburb of Heliopolis, his lawyer said.
The 88-year-old former military leader was ordered free earlier this year after Egypt’s top court finally acquitted him of complicity in protester deaths during the 2011 revolt that ousted him.
“Yes,” his lawyer Farid al-Deeb said when asked if Mubarak had left the hospital on Friday, AlJazeera writes.
Mubarak bagged a life sentence after being convicted in 2012 of complicity in the killing of over 850 protesters who died at the hands of security forces in February, 2011.
An appeals court ordered a retrial which dismissed the charges two years later, while a three-year prison sentence for Mubarak and his two sons on corruption charges was upheld in 2016. Both of his sons, Alaa and Gamal, were freed as the sentence took into consideration time served.
However, in a landmark ruling on March 2, he was acquitted of involvement in the killings.
Meanwhile, he faces renewed corruption investigation for allegedly receiving gifts from the state owned Al-Ahram newspaper as the government of President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi continues to grapple with the possible consequences of setting him free.
