Cairo: Hosni Mubarak who ruled Egypt for 30 years had died on Tuesday. He was undergoing treatment followed by surgery at Cairo's Galaa military hospital.
Born in 1928 in Munofiya province in the Nile River Delta, Mubarak graduated from the Air Force Academy. He was appointed by then President Anwar Sadat as Air Force Commander in 1972.
He was married to Suzanne Mubarak, a half-British graduate of the American University in Cairo, with two sons, Alaa and Gamal.
In 1975, Sadat appointed Mubarak as his vice president.
He focused on getting Egypt from its isolation with some Arab and Muslim countries in response to Sadat's signing of a peace treaty with Israel in 1979. He made successful ties with Iraq and provided military assistance to Baghdad in its war with Iran. In 2008, Mubarak managed to draw a truce between Islamic Hamas movement and Israel.
Inspired by the first Arab Spring revolt in Tunisia, protesters took to the streets in January 25, 2011, who commemorate the Police Day.
The military announced his resignation on February 11, 2011.
By late May 2011, judicial officials announced that Mubarak along with his two sons would stand trial over the deaths of anti-government protesters.
In 2012, he was found guilty of complicity in the murder of some of the demonstrators who took part in the wave of protests. He was sentenced along with his interior minister to life sentence.
In 2014, Mubarak was found guilty of embezzlement and sentenced to three years in prison.
He was convicted in 2015 along with his two sons of diverting public funds and using the money to upgrade family properties. They were sentenced to three years in jail.
In March 2017, Egypt's top court upheld Mubarak acquittal and he went free, for the first time in six years.
