gypt's former President Hosni Mubarak is suffering from cancer, his defence lawyer has said, citing a medical report to assess whether the former leader is fit enough to stand trial.
"He has a stomach cancer and the tumours are growing," Mubarak's lawyer Farid el-Deeb said on Monday.
El-Deeb told Al Jazeera's Nadia Magd that Mubarak has had cancer since March 2010, but it had been kept a secret.
Ayman Mohyeldin reports from Cairo.
