Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak dies aged 91. He died in a hospital in the capital Cairo on February 25, 2020.
Mubarak ruled Egypt for thirty years before he was ousted by a strong wave of protests that were dubbed the Arab Spring. The Arab Spring was a wave of protests that happened n Arab countries targeting oppressive regimes. It started in early 2010 in Tunisia before spreading to Egypt in 2011.
Mubarak was sentenced to life in 2012 after he was found guilty of the killing of 900 protesters during the 25 January to 11 February Egypt uprising in 2011. He was detained at the military hospital in Cairo’s northern surburb Maadi. He was released in 2017 after an appeals court found him not guilty. He has been residing at his homestead in the Heliopolis district.
Mubarak was born at May 4, 1928 in Kafr Al Musaylhah in Egypt.
He surviced with his spouse Suzanne Mubarak whom he married in 1959 and his two children Gamal Mubarak and Alaa Mubarak and four grandchildren.
He was President of Egypt from 1981 to 2011. Mubarak previously served as Prime Minister of Egypt from 1981 to 1982. Before being the Prime Minister, he served as Vice-President of Egypt 1975 to 1981. He was in the Egypt Executive for a total 36 years from 1975.
Mubarak is celebrated by mostly the older population of Egypt as he is accredited for building a strong country and economy during the 1980s and 1990s. However the younger population believes he was the source of problems for Egypt’s economy.