Ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his family are under house arrest and have not fled to Saudi Arabia, Egypt’s military rulers said Monday.

“There is no truth to reports that former president Hosni Mubarak has left Egypt for Tabuk in Saudi Arabia,” the country’s military rulers said in a statement on Facebook. “He is under house arrest, with his family, in Egypt.”

Mubarak left the capital Cairo for the resort city of Sharm el Sheikh when his regime collapsed on Feb. 11. According to a report in an Egyptian newspaper, Mubarak traveled to Tabuk for cancer treatment, which was denied by Egypt’s prosecutor general.

The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has ruled Egypt since Mubarak was forced to quit after 18 days of massive street protests against his 30-year autocratic regime.

Meanwhile, Egypt’s military rulers say the country’s notorious emergency laws will be lifted ahead of parliament elections that are to be held in September.

The laws have been in place since 1981. They gave police near-unlimited powers of arrest and allowed indefinite detentions without charges.

(Source: Fox News)