Egypt's deposed longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak turns 87, waves to supporters from hospital
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Egypt's deposed longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak has celebrated his 87th birthday by waving to some 100 supporters gathered outside of a military hospital where he is being held in Cairo.
The crowd gathered Monday held up photos of Mubarak and praised him with slogans of support, days before an expected May 9 verdict in his retrial on corruption charges.
An appeals court overturned the last remaining conviction against Mubarak in January, leaving no other legal reason for detaining the ailing former leader.
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The corruption case concerns charges that Mubarak and his two sons embezzled millions of dollars of state funds over the course of a decade. The funds were meant to pay for renovating and maintaining presidential palaces but were instead allegedly spent on upgrading the family's private residences.