They want to kill me in prison: Hosni Mubarak

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Egypt's ousted president Hosni Mubarak, now serving a life sentence over protester killings, said the authorities ‘want to kill’ him in jail as his health deteriorated, his lawyer said on Monday.

"He says: 'They want to kill me. Save me, Mr Farid, find me a solution," Farid al-Deeb, his chief lawyer in the murder and corruption trial, which ended this month with his sentencing, said.

Mubarak's health has deteriorated since his incarceration on June 2, and he was defibrillated twice to revive his heart on Monday, a prison hospital source said. "His condition is very critical," Deeb said.

"I appeal through Agence France-Presse to all world leaders and NGOs: save Mubarak."

An interior ministry source had told AFP that Mubarak's condition was ‘critical but stable’, as officials weighed transferring him to a military hospital in the capital.

The 84-year-old former strongman was sentenced to life behind bars for suppressing a revolt against his rule in early 2011 in which nearly 850 protesters were killed.