In light of the state of emergency in the country, Interim Prime Minister Hazem al-Beblawi ordered that Mubarak be placed under home arrest.
According to Egypt’s official news agency MENA, Mubarak chose to spend his period of home arrest in Maadi hospital, which is located in Maadi district in Cairo.
Mubarak was transferred to the Maadi Military Hospital upon his personal request, MENA quoted Moustafa Bazz, assistant to interior minister for the prisons department sector, as saying.
Mubarak is banned from travelling abroad as he still faces a retrial on charges of involvement in the killing of protesters during the 2011 unrest that eventually toppled him.
Meanwhile, supporters of Egypt’s ousted president Mohamed Morsi called on the Egyptian people to protest against the army Friday.