Edmonton Journal

ACQUITTED MUBARAK QUIETLY RETURNS HOME

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CAIRO Far from the cameras that followed him closely over six years of legal wrangling, Egypt’s ousted President Hosni Mubarak, pictured, quietly returned home to his family on Friday after winning acquittals and release from a Cairo hospital where he has been detained for years.

The 88-year-old one-time autocratic ruler now walks free, acquitted over his role in the killings of hundreds of protesters who defied his rule. He captured the world’s attention when he stepped down in response to an 18day uprising, and once again when he appeared behind the bars of the defendant’s cage in a court case that media dubbed “the trial of the century.”

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