Pakistan's ex-prime minister Imran Khan has left court premises in Islamabad, a day after the Supreme Court ruled his dramatic arrest on corruption charges was illegal.
On Friday evening, Mr Khan's party said he was heading for the city of Lahore.
Judges granted Mr Khan protected bail, meaning he can not be re-arrested on those charges for two weeks.
The court also ordered he could not be arrested on any charges filed after last Tuesday until 17 May.
Despite the rulings, the corruption charges against Mr Khan still stand.
"The head of the country's largest party was abducted, kidnapped from the high court, and in front of the entire nation," Khan said from the court building.
"They treated me like a terrorist, this had to have a reaction," he said of the protests that followed.
Mr Khan remained within court premises after the hearing on Friday seeking preventive bail against other charges, which he told the BBC included counts of terrorism, sedition and blasphemy.
Conviction would disqualify the former international cricket star - and Pakistan's prime minister from 2018 to 2022 - from standing for office, possibly for life. Elections are due later this year.
Mr Khan had arrived at the hearing under heavy armed guard, and greeted supporters with a single raised fist.
Speaking during Friday's hearing, Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial said the arrest was unlawful because it took place on court premises.
He ordered that the "whole process" of Mr Khan's arrest "needs to be backtracked".
The 70-year-old - who was arrested on Tuesday as he arrived at a courthouse in Islamabad - pleaded not guilty to the charges when a judge formally indicted him with corruption for the first time in the dozens of cases he faces.
Officials say Mr Khan unlawfully sold state gifts during his premiership, in a case brought by Pakistan's Election Commission.
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