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    Talking A day in the life of Hosni Mubarak

    A day in the life of Hosni Mubarak behind bars
    30 May 2012




    Since the toppling of the regime following the January 25 revolution, former President Hosni Mubarak’s life behind bars has been talk of the town ─ yet no one knew for certain what his life was like in his prison cell. It was only when an Egyptian independent newspaper published a detailed report of Mubarak’s taken on current events a clearer image emerged.

    The Egyptian daily independent al-Watan ran a story about Mubarak’s life in jail and his reactions to developments in the Egyptian political scene. The information, supported by pictures and documents, were provided by someone described as close to the former president.

    According to the report, a crew of five nurses, who change shifts every eight hours, tend to Mubarak at the International Medical Center, where he is detained. The nurses are not allowed to go into his suite with their cell phones and even the doctors are carefully searched before being allowed in. These strict measures are taken to prevent any leaks.
    When Mubarak’s trial began, the former president asked his son Alaa’s wife to let his grandson Omar to spend the night with him. The mother refused and said she did not think it was safe for the boy to stay at the medical center. At that point, the former president got furious and his wife Suzanne interfered to convince her daughter-in-law to grant Mubarak his request. When she finally agreed, Mubarak was so happy that he slept at four in the morning even though he usually sleeps at 10.

    One of the most striking incidents mentioned in the report was when a nurse was talking to her co-worker in a loud voice and the former president’s wife Suzanne told her, “If you raise your voice again, I will chop off your head.” The nurse replied, “I haven’t done anything wrong for you to threaten me like this.” Suzanne was infuriated at the nurse talking back and slapped her on the face. The nurse started screaming and Mubarak’s guards hurried to investigate the matter. After they checked, one of the officers told Suzanne, “Please calm down, Madam. Don’t forget that things are not the way they were before.”

    The report added that Mubarak kept his daily habit of reading the official newspapers al-Ahram and al-Akhbar and watching state TV and sometimes Al Arabiya News Channel to follow what is happening in Syria, Libya, and Yemen.

    He is reported to have gotten depressed watching revolutions in other Arab countries and would say, “The U.S. is behind all those revolutions.”

    When his wife was not visiting him, Mubarak would spend the day talking to the nurses, doctors, and guards, asking them about how things are in Egypt and whether the army is in control and if the police are back to the streets. He also used to ask whether all Egyptians hate him or some of them still love him.

    Mubarak’s former intelligence chief and vice president Omar Suleiman visited him two days before he was excluded from the presidential race. They both talked about the political situation in Egypt and exchanged their views on the future of the country. Mubarak seemed very happy to see Suleiman.
    On October 20, Mubarak threw a fit when he was watching TV and saw footage of the death of former Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi. That day, he cried nonstop and looked frightened.


    Mubarak followed the parliamentary elections and was astonished at the number of Egyptians who went to vote. “Where did they all come from?” he asked. It must be the 500-pound fine that drove them to go.” He also speculated that the Muslim Brotherhood will not get more the 80 seats they received before in the 2005 elections and was stunned to see them sweep to victory.

    There was news that also brought him happiness. For example, he was thrilled to learn that former International Atomic Energy Agency Mohamed al-Baradei had withdrawn from the presidential elections.

    He also laughed heartily when he watched the sessions of Islamist-dominated parliament and said “All those beards? Are we in Egypt or Afghanistan? They will ruin the country.”

    He also used to make fun of all presidential candidates and his most memorable comment was, “So this is why Egyptians had a revolution? They are not even capable of running a cigarette kiosk.”

    Mubarak saw all the candidates as unfit and especially made fun of former Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa. “He is so full of himself,” he was reported to have said. The only one he admired was his former Civil Aviation Minister and last Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq.

    When clashes between the army and Copts took place in October, Mubarak was watching TV with his brother-in-law Mounir Thabet. Thabet told him that Copts are angry because Salafis destroyed three churches and no action was taken against them and that some infiltrators provoked the army into reacting violently.

    “Since when do officers kill when they get angry,” Mubarak asked Thabet. “Something is fishy. Plus, Christians have always been peaceful people and never acted like this.”

    He also asked how the interior ministry had not interfered and one senior army officer who was also there replied that the ministry has become very weak and is “even incapable of catching petty thieves.”

    “Looks like the interior minister is a sissy,” Mubarak said. “Had it been Habib al-Adly, he would have finished the whole business in three minutes.”

    The suite in which Mubarak is staying is located on the fifth floor of the International Medical Center and is one of the center’s best. The suite is made up of two main suites, each 250 square meters.

    Attached to the suite are five fully-furnished rooms for guests who sleep over. There is also a fully-equipped conference room in addition to a swimming pool, Jacuzzi, and sauna. A state of the art operation theatre is also attached to suite and is solely dedicated to him in cases of emergency. The room is considered one of the world’s most advanced.
    http://english.alarabiya.net/article...30/217549.html

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    Lawyer for Former Egyptian President Says He Can Leave Detention
    March 13, 2017 - Egyptian media reports say a Cairo prosecutor authorized Monday the release of ousted president Hosni Mubarak, ending almost six years of legal matters.
    The order came after an appeals court exonerated the long-ruling autocrat of participation in the killing of protesters in a 2011 riot that ended his nearly three-decade reign. Mubarak is still banned from leaving Egypt pending an ongoing corruption investigation, but “he can go home now when the doctors decide he is able to,” Mubarak’s lawyer Farid al-Deeb told reporters.



    Ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, sits in the defendants cage behind protective glass, during a court hearing as he listens to his son Gamal, left, in Cairo, Egypt



    The ex-leader has spent the last six years in detention in a military hospital in Cairo. He also served a three-year sentence in a separate corruption case while in the hospital. Mubarak, his interior minister and six aides were sentenced to life in prison in 2012, but another court overturned the verdict two years later, citing technical flaws in the prosecution. He was acquitted in March 2.


    Hundreds of protesters were killed in clashes with police and Mubarak supporters during the 18-day uprising, part of the Arab Spring protests that swept the region. The military overthrew Mubarak's successor and Egypt's first freely elected civilian President, Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, in 2013.


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    Mubarak, Egypt's toppled Pharaoh, is free after final charges dropped
    Fri Mar 24, 2017 | Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president overthrown in 2011 and the first leader to face trial after the Arab Spring uprisings that swept the region, was freed on Friday after six years in detention, his lawyer said.
    The 88-year-old was cleared of the final murder charges against him this month, after facing trial in a litany of cases ranging from corruption to the killing of protesters whose 18-day revolt stunned the world and ended his 30-year rule. "Yes, he is now in his home in Heliopolis," Mubarak's lawyer, Farid El Deeb told Reuters when asked if Mubarak had left Maadi Military hospital in southern Cairo where he had been detained. Heliopolis is an upscale neighborhood where the main presidential palace from which Mubarak once governed is located. Mubarak was initially arrested in April 2011, two months after leaving office, and has since been held in prison and in military hospitals under heavy guard.

    Many Egyptians who lived through his presidency view it as a period of stagnation, autocracy and crony capitalism. Arabs watched enraptured when the first images of the former air force commander, Egypt's modern-day Pharaoh, were beamed live on television, showing him bed-bound in his courtroom cage. The overthrow of Mubarak, one of a series of military men to rule Egypt since the 1952 abolition of the monarchy, embodied the hopes of the Arab Spring uprisings that shook autocrats from Tunisia to the Gulf and briefly raised hopes of a new era of democracy and social justice. His release takes that journey full circle, marking what his critics say is the return of the old order to Egypt, where authorities have crushed Mubarak's enemies in the Muslim Brotherhood, killing hundreds and jailing thousands, while his allies regain influence.


    Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak looks towards his supporters during celebrations of the 43rd anniversary of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, at Maadi military hospital on the outskirts of Cairo

    Another military man, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, stepped into Mubarak's shoes in 2013 when he overthrew Mohamed Mursi, the Brotherhood official who won Egypt's first free election after the uprising. A year later, Sisi won a presidential election in which the Brotherhood, now banned, could not participate. The liberal and leftist opposition, at the forefront of the 2011 protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square, is under pressure and in disarray.

    Years of political tumult and worsening security have hit the economy, just as Mubarak always warned. Egyptians complain of empty pockets and rumbling bellies as inflation exceeds 30 percent and the government tightens its belt in return for loans from the International Monetary Fund. "The economic crisis we are living in and the high prices take priority over everything, as does the fear of terrorism. That is what preoccupies ordinary citizens, not Mubarak," said Khaled Dawoud, an opposition politician who opposed the Islamists but also condemned the bloody crackdown on them. "When you see the group of people who show up and cheer and support him, you are talking about 150, 200 people," he said, referring to occasional shows of support outside the Maadi hospital when Mubarak was there.

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    Mubarek got life in prison but he just got a pardon and is released
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