Birth place: Kafr-el Meselha, Minufiya, Egypt
Birth name: Mohammed Hosni Mubarak
Marriage: Suzanne (Thabet) Mubarak
Children: Gamal, 1963 (son); Alaa, 1961 (son)
Education: National Military Academy (Egypt), 1949; Air Force Academy (Egypt), 1952; Frunze General Staff Academy (USSR), 1964
Timeline:
1952-1959 – Works as a flight instructor at the Egyptian Air Force Academy.
1965-1967 – Commands several Air Force bases.
1967-1972 – Appointed as the Director of the Air Force Academy and Chief of Staff of the Egyptian Air Force.
1969 – Mubarak is promoted to Chief of Staff of the Egyptian Air Force.
1972 – Mubarak is promoted to Commander in Chief of the Air Force and Deputy Minister of War.
October 1973 – Promoted to the rank of Air Marshal of the Egyptian Air Force.
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June 2, 2012 – Hosni Mubarak is found guilty of the killing of protesters and is sentenced to life in prison. He is immediately transferred to Tora prison in southern Cairo to serve his life sentence. Six of Mubarak’s aides and his sons, Gamal and Alaa, are acquitted.
June 11, 2012 – A spokesman for Egypt’s Interior Ministry announces that Mubarak has fallen into a ‘full coma’. The announcement also says that Mubarak’s two sons, Gamal and Alaa, have submitted a request to the prison authority to be at his side and that the request has been accepted.
June 19, 2012 – Mubarak’s lawyer tells CNN that he has suffered a stroke and has been moved to the Maadi military hospital from the Tora prison hospital. The next day he is removed from life support equipment as his health stabilizes.
December 15, 2012 – Mubarak sustains injuries when he slips inside the prison hospital and is transferred to a military hospital twelve days later.
January 2013 – Egyptian news media report Murbark and former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly have been granted a new trial.
May 11, 2013 – Mubarak’s retrial begins. He appears in court on a stretcher, wearing dark sunglasses.
August 22, 2013 – Mubarak is released from prison and placed under house arrest at a military hospital.
May 21, 2014 – Mubarak is sentenced to three years in prison after being convicted of embezzlement. His sons Gamal and Alaa are sentenced to four years each on the same charge.
November 29, 2014 – In retrial, Mubarak is cleared of charges. He is acquitted of killing protesters, and found not guilty of corruption.
January 13, 2014 – An Egyptian court overturns Mubarak’s May 2014 conviction on embezzlement charges and orders a retrial.
