Former Egyptian autocrat Hosni Mubarak, who crushed political dissent in his country and ruled with an iron fist for three decades, has died at 91.
Egyptian state TV confirmed Mubarak’s death on Tuesday, saying he died in a military hospital in Cairo.
The news comes days after one of Mubarak’s sons, Alaa, announced that he was in intensive care following a surgery in January.
His grandson, Omar, posted a photo of himself and Mubarak on Instagram after the news of his death.
A former military pilot who became vice president in the 1970s after President Anwar Sadat was assassinated during a parade in Cairo, Mubarak became the fourth president of Egypt in 1981. He was removed from power in 2011 after young dissidents led protests for 18-days in the country, part of the Arab Spring revolution that captivated the Arab geopolitical world at the time.
In 2012, Mubarak and his sons were forced to appear in court and found guilty of “complicity” in the murders of hundreds in his country. Several Egyptian generals and security officials acted as witnesses during the trial. The conviction was overturned in 2017, allowing both him and his sons to walk free of all charges.
