Egypt's ex-President Hosni Mubarak, due to go on trial next week for murder, is refusing food in his hospital detention and has become extremely weak, state media reported on Wednesday.
Mr. Mubarak (83) has been under detention since April on charges of ordering the killings of anti-regime protesters and corruption. He is being held at a Red Sea resort hospital, where he is receiving treatment for a heart condition.
His health, the topic of much speculation as critics accuse him of malingering to avoid trial, is “extremely weak,” the official al-Gomhuria newspaper reported, citing a hospital official.
He “completely abstains from food and intakes only some liquids and juices,” the newspaper quoted Mohammed Fathallah, head of the hospital in Sharm el-Sheikh, as saying.
