Hosni Mubarak stable after reports of coma
Posted July 17, 2011 1:31 pm.
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The lead doctor for Hosni Mubarak denied that the former Egyptian president had suffered a stroke and was in a coma, as his lawyer claimed.
Dr. Assem Azzam said Mubarak, 83, had only suffered a bout of low blood pressure and was in stable condition at a hospital in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
Earlier Sunday, Mubarak’s lawyer Farid el-Deeb told Reuters news agency that he was on his way to Sharm el-Sheikh after learning Mubarak was in a coma.
Mubarak was being treated at a hospital in Sharm el-Sheikh two months after he was ousted Feb. 11 by a popular uprising that lasted nearly three weeks in Cairo’s Tahrir Square and other parts of Egypt.
He is scheduled to face a trial on Aug. 3. over allegations he ordered the killing of protesters during the mass demonstrations against his 30-year-old regime.
A conviction could carry the death penalty and activists suspect his lawyer may be using health problems as a ruse to sway public opinion and perhaps even win amnesty.
With files from The Associated Press
