OREANDA-NEWS. Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak died Tuesday in Cairo at the age of 91. This was reported by state television. The last month he was in intensive care in one of the capital's clinics after surgery on the gastrointestinal tract, a few days ago his eldest son Ala Mubarak wrote a post on a social network asking him to pray for his father’s health.

Hosni Mubarak led Egypt from 1981 to 2011. On the wave of mass anti-government protests on February 3, 2011, he resigned. Several criminal cases were brought against Mubarak, including corruption and the killing of demonstrators, but they all eventually fell apart, the former president was acquitted. His only sentence concerned gifts from Al-Ahram publishing house. However, the former head of state was counted as a prison term spent during the investigation. In recent years, Mubarak lived in solitude with his family, refraining from any communication with the press.