Ex-President Dies – level 1

02-03-2020 07:00

Hosni Mubarak is the president of Egypt. He is the president from 1981 to 2011. There are many problems in the country. People are poor. They are not happy with the government. They want Mubarak to leave his job.

There are many protests. Officials kill a lot of people.

In 2011, Mubarak leaves his job. The police arrest him. Mubarak goes to court. The court says that Mubarak is guilty. He lets officials kill people during protests. The court sends Mubarak to prison.

Mubarak leaves prison in 2017. He is very ill. Mubarak dies this week. He is 91 years old.

Difficult words: protests (when people meet in the streets because they are not happy and they want a change), arrest (when police take a person away to ask about a crime), guilty (when somebody does something bad and people know he does it).

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