Son of late President Gamal Abdel Nasser dies after battle with illness

Egypt's military ruler Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi on Friday led the funeral of the son of late president and leader Gamal Abdel Nasser who died Thursday, the official MENA agency reported.

Tantawi joined dozens of mourners including politicians and supporters of the late president for the funeral prayers of Khalid Abdel Nasser.

The son of the Arab nationalist leader was an outspoken critic of both his father's successors Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak.

In 1988, he was tried in absentia and later acquitted on charges of belonging to a secret leftist organization that was vehemently opposed to the 1979 so-called peace treaty between Egypt and the Israeli enemy.

In January and February, he joined protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square for mass rallies that brought the end of the Mubarak regime.

Khalid, a professor of engineering at Cairo University, died aged 62 after a battle with illness.