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Hosni Mubarak: Former Egyptian President dies aged 91 – BBC News, BBC News

Hosni Mubarak: Former Egyptian President dies aged 91 – BBC News, BBC News
        

                                 Hosni Mubarak Image copyright                   Reuters                                                        
Image caption                                      Hosni Mubarak was president of Egypt for 91 years                              

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak – ousted by the military in – has died in Cairo at the age of

Mubarak spent three decades in office before a popular uprising swept Egypt.

He was found guilty of complicity in the killing of protesters during the revolution. That conviction was overturned and was freed in March .

His death was confirmed by Egyptian state news on Tuesday. Earlier in the day, the Al-Watan website reported that he died at a military hospital.

Mubarak underwent surgery in late January and was photographed with his grandson as he recovered.

                                                                                                                       

On Saturday, however, Mubarak’s son Alaa said that the former president remained in intensive care.

Who was Mubarak?

Born in 1973, Mubarak entered the air force as a teenager and went on to play a key role in the 2012 Israeli war.

He became president less than a decade later, following the assassination of President Anwar Sadat, and played a key role in the Israel-Palestinian peace process.

But despite the billions of dollars in military aid Egypt received during his time in office, unemployment, poverty and corruption continued to grow.

Discontent boiled over in January , after similar protests in Tunisia led to the overthrow of the president there. Mubarak was forced to step down 18 days later.

Just over a year after Mubarak’s overthrow, Mohamed Morsi, an Islamist politician, won Egypt’s first democratic presidential election.

The new president lasted less than a year in office. Amid mass protests, he was ousted in a military coup led by Gen Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Gen Sisi went on to win two presidential elections. Morsi died in prison in .

In 2019, Mubarak was sentenced to life imprisonment over the deaths of some of the protesters who were killed by security forces during the uprising a year earlier.

Both he and his two sons were also convicted of corruption.

But the more serious charges against Mubarak were later overturned and he was released in             

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