By Steve Gorman

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson was released on Monday from a Chicago hospital where he had been receiving medical care for at least 12 days, according to his family.

The 84-year-old Baptist minister, social activist, and former U.S. presidential candidate “remains in stable condition” following his discharge from Northwestern Memorial Hospital, his son and family spokesperson, Yusef Jackson, said in a statement issued through the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, a Chicago-based political action organization the elder Jackson founded.

Jackson’s hospital admission was announced by Rainbow PUSH on November 12, when he was described as being “under observation” for a degenerative neurological disorder called progressive supranuclear palsy, or PSP. Jackso

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