ICC Note:

It has been six years since former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was over thrown and imprisoned for the deaths of protesters in the 2011 revolution. Mubarak was convicted for the murder of a reported 800 demonstrators, many of which included Christians, and he was sentenced to life in prison.  Reports are now suggesting that Mubarak has been released early from prison and the current government officials fear public backlash.

3/24/2017 Egypt (BBC) – Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has been freed from detention, six years after being overthrown.

Mr Mubarak left a military hospital in southern Cairo and went to his home in the northern suburb of Heliopolis, his lawyer said.

He was ordered freed earlier this month after Egypt’s top appeals court cleared him over the deaths of protesters in the 2011 uprising.

Mr Mubarak, 88, became president in 1981 after Anwar Sadat’s assassination.

He had been at Maadi Military Hospital since 2013, when he was transferred there on bail from Torah prison.

Mr Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted in 2012 of complicity in the killing of protesters who died at the hands of security forces in February, 2011.

Another trial was held and a judge decreed in May 2015 that Mr Mubarak could be released from detention.

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