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Former Egyptian president Mubarak set free

Egypt's former president, Hosni Mubarak, left a military hospital in southern Cairo on Friday.

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Egypt's former president, Hosni Mubarak, left a military hospital in southern Cairo on Friday.
March 24, 2017

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has been freed from his detention, the BBC reported.

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Mubarak,88, left a military hospital in southern Cairo and went to his home in the northern suburb of Heliopolis, his lawyer said. Mubarak was released after Egypt's top appeals court earlier this month cleared him over the deaths of protesters in the 2011 uprising.

Mubarak became president in 1981 after Anwar Sadat's assassination.

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