Mubarak will be moved to prison after recovery

Egypt's state prosecutor decided on Friday to transfer ousted president Hosni Mubarak to a military hospital, from which he will be moved to prison when his health improves, state media reported.

Abdel Maguid Mahmud "decided to transfer the former president Hosni Mubarak to one of the military hospitals," from one in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El Sheikh, the official MENA news agency reported.

Mubarak would be placed under "the necessary security," it reported.

It added Mubarak would remain "detained under preventive custody according to prison laws with the obligation of informing the state prosecution as soon his health improves and the opportunity arises to move him to a prison."

Mubarak suffered a heart attack earlier this week during questioning by prosecutors over his alleged involvement in the deaths of anti-regime protesters.

He and his two sons were subsequently remanded in custody for 15 days.

The report said the prosecution had asked the interior ministry to transfer Mubarak to a hospital in Cairo's Tora prison, where his sons Alaa and Gamal are along with a growing number of former ministers and regime officials.

The interior minister responded by saying the prison's hospital was not equipped to deal with a rapid decline in the 82-year-old's health and recommended a military hospital, the report said.

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