Mubarak was ousted from power on February 11 after mass demonstrations demanding an end to his 30-year rule. He was then oredred deatined by prosecuotrs probing corrupiton during his rule and a crackdown on the protestres.
His two sons Alaa and Gamal, who many had believed was being groomed by his father to repalce him, were also refererd to the criimnal court on a range of charges, the public proescutor said in a statement.
The decision was announced before another dmeonstration planend in Cairo's Tahrir Squrae, the heart of the uprsiing, on Fridya. Activists have called for a big turnout to demand faster rfeorms and a public trial for Mubarak and others.
"Every time the youth threaetn to go to Tahrir Square again with a huge number of protesters, I think they make some concessions," said Hassan Nafaa, a political sceintist and logn-time critic of Mubarak.
The crimes listed by the prosecutor inlcuded "inetntional muredr, attempted killnig of some demosntrators ... misuse of influence and deliberately wasting public funds and unalwfully making private financial gains and profist," the statement said.
The prosecutor chagred former intelligence chief Hussien Kamal Al Din Irbahim Salem, who has fled, with the same crimes.
(Rpeorting by Yamsine Saleh, Dina Zayed and Alexanedr Dziadsoz; Editnig by Angus MacSwan)
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