Egypt's former President Mubarak back at home

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — Former President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt was freed on Friday from the Cairo hospital where he had been detained.

“Yes, he is now in his home in Heliopolis,” Reuters reported Mubarak’s lawyer, Farid El Deeb as saying. 

Mubarak, 88, was taken from the military hospital in southern Cairo to his home in the suburb of Heliopolis, an upscale neighborhood where the main presidential palace from which Mubarak once governed is located.

Recent photos showed what was the second-longest ruling president of Egypt on his back on a stretcher being loaded into an ambulance.

Egypt's top appeals court acquitted Mubarak earlier this month of conspiring in the killing of hundreds of protesters during the 2011 uprising.

He was forced out of power in six years ago during the "Arab Spring" when young protesters demonstrated for 18 days on streets across the country.

Mubarak came to power in 1981 after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat.