Also given a life term on Saturday was Mubarak’s former interior minister Habib al-Adly, while six former police commanders were acquitted, according to Al Jazeera.

Meanwhile, corruption charges against Mubarak’s sons, Alaa and Gamal, were dropped where each of his sons were facing sentences up to three years in prison, according to Human Rights Watch.

Hosni Mubarak, the first former Arab leader to be tried by his own people since the wave of political and social unrest began in the Arab World, faces a verdict on Saturday in his trial for complicity in killing of protesters during the 18-day revolt that ousted him.

Egypt has been ruled by the military since Mubarak was forced to resign last year and has vowed to hand power by July 1.

The ousted president, who was wearing a training suit with a beige top, black trousers and a pair of sunglasses, lying on a stretcher was wheeled into the Police Academy this morning where the trial took  place, state-run Al Ahram reported.

However, according to a Reuters report confirmed the information in Egyptian newspaper Al-Watan through a source who works at the hospital and requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the subject, that Mubarak is living a comfortable life in the hospital, free to see relatives, walk in the garden and exercise. Security officials said 5000 policemen and 2000 soldiers secured Saturday’s session and Mubarak’s transport from a military hospital where he was detained. Analysts say the verdict may have an impact on a presidential election run off on June 16-17 between the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohammed Mursi and Mubarak’s prime minister Ahmed Shafiq, who has vowed he will not bring back the old regime.