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Mubarak Walks Free, In What Could Be The Final Twist For Egypt's Former Dictator

Hosni Mubarak, 88 and ailing, was acquitted by Egypt's top appeals court of charges that he ordered police to kill anti-government protesters in 2011.
CAIRO, EGYPT - MARCH 19: A group of people gathered in front of the Al Maadi Hospital celebrate the prosecutor' order to release ex-president Hosni Mubarak in Cairo, Egypt on March 19, 2017. (Photo by Fared Kotb/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Six years after the Arab Spring, Egypt's former leader Hosni Mubarak has left a military hospital and is heading home. Mubarak, 88 and ailing,

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