Hosni Mubarak greets from the military hospital room in which he stayed for 6 years

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March 24, 2017

Former President Hosni Mubarak has left the military hospital in Maadi, south of Cairo, where he has been detained for years. This was reported by his lawyer, Farid El Dib. Following an acquittal, the exit from the hospital had been scheduled by the same lawyer for the past few days, but a postponement had taken place. "He left Maadi hospital at eight o'clock this morning and went to his residence in Heliopolis" in Cairo, the lawyer said, "where he had breakfast with his family and many friends."

The ex-rais has spent the past six years between prison and military hospital, since April 2011 when he was arrested two months after his resignation. Despite protests and appeals from the families of the victims, supported by various human rights organizations, the judges acquitted him of all charges and the possibility of a prison sentence. His hospitalization - from which he never went out, and which also included guards at the door of his huge bedroom - had been motivated by health problems that, however, had returned in the meantime. His hospitalization had meanwhile become a pilgrimage destination for his supporters, who never failed to meet daily under his window to sing slogans and wave flags.