Egyptian security officials say the health of ousted President Hosni Mubarak has deteriorated further, with doctors having to use a defibrillator twice and feed him liquids intravenously. 
 
 The officials said Mubarak's two sons, one-time heir apparent Gamal and wealthy businessman Alaa, were by his side at the intensive care ward of Torah prison hospital south of Cairo where the 84-year-old former president is serving a life sentence. 
 
 The officials, who are at Torah, did not say whether the defibrillator was used because Mubarak's heart stopped or to remedy irregular heartbeats. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. 

 Former Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak was in a coma Monday, a spokesman for Egypt's Interior Ministry said. 
 
 "Mubarak entered today into full coma. His two sons Gamal and Alaa submitted a request to the prison authority to move beside him and it has been accepted. His health has been deteriorating since the verdict, with high blood pressure, problems breathing, and irregular heart beat," Interior Ministry spokesman Alaa Mahmoud said. 
 
 Mubarak's lawyer has submitted a request that he be moved from prison to a private hospital, Mahmoud said. 
 
 Mubarak, 84, is in a Cairo prison hospital after being sentenced to life in prison for the killing of pro-democracy demonstrators last year. Mubarak was already suffering from health problems and attended court on a gurney. 
 
 
 

– Hosni Mubarak's life sentence is growing ever shorter. The former president has gone from slipping in and out of consciousness to "full coma," according to a rep for Egypt's Interior Ministry, and security officials say doctors have twice used a defibrillator on him. It's unclear whether it was used because his heart stopped or to remedy irregular heartbeats, which he continues to have problems with, reports the AP. "His two sons Gamal and Alaa submitted a request to the prison authority to move beside him and it has been accepted," says the rep; they're currently by his side in the intensive care ward of Torah prison hospital. Mubarak's lawyers continue their efforts to get him moved from that location to a private hospital, reports CNN. The AP yesterday reported that his wife and two daughters-in-law were granted special permission to visit him in order to squash rumors of his death.