Hosni Mubarak walks free after six-year detention

Ex-president, recently acquitted for role in
protester deaths during 2011 uprising, returns to
his Cairo home.

Six years after his ouster, Egypt's ex-President Hosni P Mubarak has been released from detention after being 
cleared of inciting the killings of hundreds of protesters in 2011.

Mubarak, 88, on Friday left a military hospital in Cairo's
southern suburb of Maadi where he had been held in 
custody and went to his home in the upscale Heliopolis district under heavy security.

His lawyer, Farid el-Deeb, told the Egyptian newspaper al-
Masry al-Youm that he celebrated his release with breakfast

his wife Suzanne and their two sons, Alaa and Gamal.

Mubarak was cleared for release earlier this month after
 the country's highest appeals court acquitted him of any
involvement in the deaths of nearly 900 Egyptians during
the 25 January - 11 February 2011 uprising.

He had been sentenced to life in 2012 but an appeals
 court dismissed the charges two years later.

Timothy Kaldas, a non-resident fellow at the Tahrir
 Institute for Middle East Policy, told Al Jazeera that it was unlikely "both now or any time in the foreseeable future that anyone will be prosecuted for the murders.

"Mubarak being in or out of prison doesn't change the fact
that the military the took control in Egypt in 1952 continues
 to rule Egypt today.

"[Mubarak's] role in Egyptian politics is of limited 
consequence today, [but] there's a real sense of injustice
 that while many revolutionaries are in prison - he has walked free."