Maadi Military Hospital

Six years after baying crowds ousted him at the peak of the Arab Spring, former President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt was freed on Friday from the Cairo hospital where he had been detained, capping a long and largely fruitless effort to hold him accountable for human rights abuses and endemic corruption during his three decades of rule.

According to Iranian media, the former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak died at the age of 87 on Wednesday.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry confirmed the death though his Twitter account, Fars news agency reports.

However there has been further official confirmation neither by other Egyptian officials nor by other media.