Hosni Mubarak 'defibrillated after heart stops' Prison authorities last week agreed to move Mubarak's son Gamal, who is in the same prison awaiting trial on corruption charges, closer to his father. Mubarak asked that his other son Alaa, also in Tora awaiting trial on the same charges as Gamal, be allowed to stay with him. "He wants both his sons by his side," a security official said. Mubarak's wife Suzanne and his two daughters-in-law were given special permission to visit him on Sunday following rumours that he had died in prison, state media reported. His family has formally requested a transfer to a Cairo hospital but such a move could unleash the anger of activists and protesters at a particularly sensitive time in the country. Elections for Mubarak's successor are just days away, a polarising contest between the ousted president's last prime minister Ahmed Shafiq and the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate Mohammed Mursi. Authorities have neither accepted nor declined the request to transfer Mubarak, saying only that he will be "treated like all prisoners." "Moving him now is very sensitive, with the threat of protests in Tahrir and the elections coming up," a security official said. Mubarak's lawyer Farid al-Deeb said he "will hold the interior ministry and the state prosecutor responsible should Mubarak die in prison" due to lack of appropriate medical care. His condition is not stable... He needs to be under observation 24 hours a day," Deeb told the independent daily Al-Masry Al-Youm. Since his ouster in February last year, there have been contradictory reports about Mubarak's health, with some saying he was suffering from cancer, heart ailments or depression.