Mubarak

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.

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who was convicted of embezzlement in May 2014, faces a retrial after the Court of Cassation ruled that legal procedures were not followed properly.

It still remains unclear whether Mubarak will be released from custody, the BBC reports.

Egypt's jailed ex-president Hosni Mubarak could be released early after having served two-thirds of a corruption sentence and seeing murder charges dropped, his lawyer said on Nov. 30.
      
An Egyptian court on Saturday dismissed the murder charge against Mubarak over the deaths of protesters during the country's 2011 uprising.
      

An Egyptian court dismissed Nov 29 a murder charge against former president Hosni Mubarak over the deaths of protesters during a 2011 uprising, after a dramatic retrial in which he defended his three-decade rule.

A court in Egypt has dropped the case against former President Hosni Mubarak of conspiring to kill protesters during the 2011 uprising against him, reports BBC.

He was also cleared of a corruption charge involving gas exports to Israel.

Mubarak, 86, is serving a separate three-year sentence for embezzlement of public funds.

An Egyptian court postpones the verdict in the murder retrial of deposed president Hosni Mubarak, citing the reams of evidence

An Egyptian court on Sept. 15 ordered the release on bail of Alaa Abdel Fattah, a prominent activist of the 2011 revolt against former president Hosni Mubarak, a defence lawyer told AFP.

Hosni Mubarak, former Egyptian President is to spend three years in jail after a court found him guilty of embezzlement.

Mubarak, 86, was in power before street protests in Egypt during the Arab Spring.