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Egypt’s Ex-President Hosni Mubarak Said to Be in Critical Condition — 8 Days After Being Sentenced to Life in Prison

Mubarak critical condition

An Egyptian security official says former president Hosni Mubarak has been slipping in and out of consciousness, more than a week after he was transferred to a hospital inside a Cairo prison to serve his life sentence. (AP File Photo)

CAIRO (AP) — Hosni Mubarak is slipping in and out of consciousness eight days after the ousted Egyptian leader was sent to prison to begin serving a life sentence, a security official said on Sunday.

With rumors of the former president’s death spreading rapidly, authorities granted his wife, former first lady Suzanne Mubarak, and the couple’s two daughters-in-law special permission to visit him in Cairo’s Torah prison early that morning.

“The former president’s health is in decline, but now it’s stable in its deteriorated state,” the official said. Since his wife’s visit, Mubarak has suffered from an irregular heartbeat and required assistance in breathing.

The official told The Associated Press that the former president now lives only on liquids and yogurt. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

Mubarak’s health is reported to have collapsed since his June 2 conviction for failing to stop the killing of protesters during the uprising that overthrew him in 2011. His life sentence saw him transferred immediately to a prison hospital, instead of the military hospital and other facilities where he had been held since his April 2011 arrest.

Authorities have turned down several requests by Mubarak’s family to transfer the ousted president back to a military facility, the official said.

On Saturday Mubarak’s wife was denied access to the Intensive Care Unit where he was placed, as authorities limit family visitations to one a month.

According to security officials quoted by al-Masry al-Youm daily, Mrs. Mubarak lashed out at wardens for not giving her husband permission to seek treatment outside the prison. “You will be responsible for his death,” she allegedly said.

Mubarak’s two sons Alaa and Gamal are also being held. They were acquitted on June 2 of corruption charges, but still face separate charges of insider trading.

On Saturday, Egypt’s state run news agency MENA quoted officials as saying that Mubarak is at risk of stroke, quoting a medical team’s report.

Other media reports said that his lawyer Farid al-Deeb informed him that he will soon be transferred back to a military facility in the Cairo suburb of Maadi.

In his last public appearance on June 2, the bedridden Mubarak sat stoned-faced in the courtroom cage. However, officials said that he broke into tears when he learnt that he will be transferred to Torah prison. It took officials hours to convince Mubarak to leave the helicopter that ferried him from the courthouse to the prison.

Media reports quoted Mubarak at the time as saying the military council who took over after his ouster had deceived him. “Egypt has sold me. They want me to die here,” he reportedly said.

The verdict sparked a new wave of protests by tens of thousands of Egyptians who allege the verdict was determined by political pressure from the country’s military rulers, doing a favor for their former president.

They say the verdict as issued can be easily overturned in an appeal, and that the acquittals of six top security officials mean that killers of the protesters will remain unknown. Many hoped Mubarak or his top officials would be convicted of murder and receive the death penalty.

Comments (25)

  • Delores at CH WV
    Posted on June 11, 2012 at 10:38am

    Shame on Egypt, Hillary Clinton, Obama, and all the other progressives in the world for this man’s death bed pain. SHAME

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  • Magyar
    Posted on June 10, 2012 at 10:51pm

    Wonder if he’ll claim prostate cancer like Megrahi and expect the same humanitarian treatment—from those of the religion of peace!

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  • Jenny Lind
    Posted on June 10, 2012 at 10:21pm

    He was better for Egypt than the idiots running and holding offices now. They had tourism, a peace agreement with Israel, now it’s another hell hole that will just get worse. He wasn’t perfect, but don‘t tell it’s “better” without him, woman will have no chance now.

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  • lukerw
    Posted on June 10, 2012 at 9:21pm

    One can die… from Force of Will Power!

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  • shogun459
    Posted on June 10, 2012 at 7:48pm

    When he dies, and he will soon, it will be from ‘natural’ causes.

    Yeah his heart stopped, who knows what made it stop.

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  • Meyvn
    Posted on June 10, 2012 at 2:12pm

    What a coincidence.

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  • MRMANN
    Posted on June 10, 2012 at 1:41pm

    When his time comes, may he rest in peace–in jail.

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  • LukeAppling
    Posted on June 10, 2012 at 11:21am

    Wasn’t that the same excuse the Libyan Lockerby bomber gave the world? Perhaps the koran okays that?

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    • Question with BOLDness
      Posted on June 10, 2012 at 5:45pm

      I don’t know if it was the same excuse or not, but he WAS supposed to be on his ‘death bed’ and didn’t have much time to live and he sure did get better once he was released. Its BS and they shouldn’t fall for it IMO.

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  • HKS
    Posted on June 10, 2012 at 11:16am

    Well, let me see now, I think we have heard this somewhere before. Just can’t remember where.

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  • Baddoggy
    Posted on June 10, 2012 at 10:54am

    Will they let him go because he is sick? That is what happens ya know. I say smother him in bacon grease and light a fire…

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  • EqualJustice
    Posted on June 10, 2012 at 9:52am

    He’ll be moved (with all his money) into exile. I doubt he will see the inside of a jail cell. They are so corrupt and money talks!

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  • Silversmith
    Posted on June 10, 2012 at 9:49am

    Or else he will “pass” and go play cards in Rio with Elvis and Hoffa.

    Silversmith

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  • rickc34
    Posted on June 10, 2012 at 9:45am

    His major crime was the keeping of a treaty made with Israel made by the former Egyptian ruler. I encourage you to study the Bible and see what role Eygpt will play along with Lybia . Why now why the take over? Why are we still making payments to Eygpt when it is apparant they violated the treaty with Israel? Ask Obama his hatred for Israel and the Jewish people drivehim forward. When america turns its back on Israel God will turn his back on America.

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    • barber2
      Posted on June 10, 2012 at 10:15am

      Agree. He was wounded when the Muslim Brotherhood assassinated Sadat. The Muslim Brotherhood who are set to gain control of Egypt, throw it back into the Muslim Dark Ages , and spread more of their hate around. Our Looney Lefties don’t see this as a problem….

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  • supressorgrid
    Posted on June 10, 2012 at 9:28am

    Life in prison don’t seem all that bad when it is only 3 or 4 weeks.

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    • G-WHIZ
      Posted on June 10, 2012 at 10:56am

      That poison fake-tooth was Made In China!!!

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  • barber2
    Posted on June 10, 2012 at 9:19am

    Death would be a blessed exit from the mess of present day Egypt. Read that a group of males attacked / assaulted a group of females who had the nerve to protest male ” harassment.” Guess those boys showed those nervy women. Ah, that wonderful “ Arab Spring” which our Lefties love to celebrate . Ah, that wonderful ENDLESS Arab Spring, which one year later, now includes an attack on Egyptian females ! The Dark Ages revisited….

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  • TWO BITS
    Posted on June 10, 2012 at 8:54am

    Celebrations of Mubarak’s death will be short-lived, for Egypt’s future does not look promising.

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  • Stoic one
    Posted on June 10, 2012 at 8:45am

    Well, he is fairing better than Kadafi (Gaddafi) … he had a rifle enema and look how that helped him.

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  • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
    Posted on June 10, 2012 at 8:27am

    I wonder if those sunglasses (in the pic) help him when he’s slipping in and out of consciousness?

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  • hempstead1944
    Posted on June 10, 2012 at 8:23am

    They shoot horses, don’t they?

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    • G-WHIZ
      Posted on June 10, 2012 at 10:59am

      He’s not worth the [$1.00] for the bullit

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