CAIRO, June 11 (UPI) -- Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, recently sentenced to life in prison, was in a coma Monday in a Cairo prison hospital, an official said.
"Mubarak entered today into full coma. His two sons Gamal and Alaa submitted a request to the prison authority to move beside him and it has been accepted," Interior Ministry spokesman Alaa Mahmoud said. "His health has been deteriorating since the verdict, with high blood pressure, problems breathing and irregular heartbeat."