CAIRO — Six years after roaring crowds ousted him at the peak of the Arab Spring, former President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt was freed on March 24 from the Cairo hospital where he had been detained, capping a long and largely fruitless effort to hold him accountable for human rights abuses and endemic corruption during his three decades of rule.
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(FILES) This file photo taken on Oct. 6, shows Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak waving to people from his room at the Maadi military hospital in Cairo, as his supporters gather to celebrate the 43rd anniversary of October War victory. Egypt's ousted president Hosni Mubarak left a military hospital on March 24 where he had spent much of his six-year detention, his lawyer said. Mubarak had been cleared for release earlier this month after a top court finally acquitted him of involvement in protester deaths during the 2011 revolt that ousted him.
