Ousted Egyptian Leader Hosni Mubarak Breathes His Last
Hosni
Mubarak, the former autocratic president of Egypt, whose hold onto power was
broken and place in history upended by a public uprising against the poverty,
corruption and repressive police tactics that came to define his 30 years in
office, died on Tuesday, aged 91. His death was confirmed by state TV.
Mr. Mubarak
spent most of his final years at the Maadi Military Hospital in southern Cairo,
under guard in a room overlooking the Nile as he defiantly battled courtroom
charges of corruption and conspiracy to murder.
He was finally released on March 24, 2017,
having been convicted in a single, relatively minor case, and spirited across
the city to his mansion in the affluent neighborhood of Heliopolis.
Last
October, he made a rare appearance in a video publishe...
