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Nov. 13, 2013 / 10:56 AM

Lawyers: Mubarak free of house arrest after end of state of emergency

Video image taken from Egyptian State Television shows former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, 83, wearing white prison clothes,in a hospital bed inside a cage in a Cairo courtroom, August 3, 2011. Mubarak and his two sons, Alaa and Gamal, are being tried on charges of corruption and ordering the killing of protesters during the revolution that ended his reign after 18 days of popular protest. UPI/Debbie Hill

Video image taken from Egyptian State Television shows former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, 83, wearing white prison clothes,in a hospital bed inside a cage in a Cairo courtroom, August 3, 2011. Mubarak and his two sons, Alaa and Gamal, are being tried on charges of corruption and ordering the killing of protesters during the revolution that ended his reign after 18 days of popular protest. UPI/Debbie Hill | License Photo

CAIRO, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak is free to move around the country now that a state of emergency has ended, his attorneys said Wednesday.

Mubarak, who was arrested in April 2011, had been on house arrest at a military hospital since a court ordered his release in August, Ahram Online reported.

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His lawyers claim his house arrest ended when the state of emergency and a curfew ended Tuesday.

That claim has been disputed. Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi said last week Mubarak would return to prison after the state of emergency was lifted because a law regarding pre-trial detention periods had been amended.

Legal experts contend authorities cannot extend Mubarak's detention.

Mubarak is being retried on charges of complicity in the deaths of protesters during a revolt that pushed him from office in January 2011. He also faces trial in three corruption cases.

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