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 yesterday.

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

Mr Mubarak’s health has deteriorated since his incarceration on June 2, and he was defibrillated twice to revive his heart yesterday, a prison hospital source said.

“His condition is very critical,” Mr Deeb said. “I appeal through Agence France-Presse to all world leaders and NGOs: save Mubarak.”

An interior ministry source had said that Mr Mubarak’s condition was “critical but stable”, as officials weighed transferring him to a military hospital in the capital.

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