Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak released after six years

Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak, 88, ousted in the Arab Spring uprising, was released after being imprisoned and held at a military hospital for six years.

Hosni Mubarak left the Maadi military hospital in Cairo on Friday morning, where he spent most of his detention, and returned to his home in the Cairo suburb of Heliopolis.
Mubarak ruled Egypt for nearly three decades, culminating in a long-running trial in which he was sentenced to life in prison for conspiracy in the deaths of 239 people protesting his leadership.

He was acquitted by Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court, the country’s highest appeals court, on March 2.
A separate charge of corruption against Mubarak was overturned in 2015.