Mr Mubarak will also face charges of financial corruption alongside his two sons, Alaa and Gamal.
Mr Mubarak's retrial on charges linked to the revolt is due to begin on Saturday.
Mr Mubarak is currently visiting Europe as part of Arab government efforts to halt Israeli-Palestinian violence.
Mr Mubarak is on trial accused of ordering the killing of demonstrators, charges he denies.
Yet Mr Mubarak's move may prove more of an astute tactical concession than a serious reform.
He remains locked up, but responded to Mr Mubarak's initiative by calling off a hunger strike.
Mr Mubarak has also tried to quash rumours of a big and early cabinet shake-up.
Under Mr Mubarak, who took over after Sadat's assassination by Islamic extremists in 1981, it died.
After nicking Mr Mubarak on the arm, the 40-year-old assailant was shot dead by bodyguards.
Mr Mubarak, who requested America's support for a timetable of steps towards Palestinian statehood, got short shrift.
After talks on Thursday, Mr Barak and Mr Mubarak agreed "not to let the peace process fail".
The doleful quip making the rounds is that Mr Mubarak, gravely ill, is having the last laugh.
Mr Mubarak's first retrial collapsed in April amid chaotic scenes as the presiding judge referred the case to another court.
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He was Mr Mubarak's last prime minister, and is unrepentant about the sins of the past government.
In Cairo Mr Cameron met representatives of the groups that led the peaceful uprising against Mr Mubarak.
All the same, Mr Mubarak had to come out of his lair to explain himself as never before.
He is the seventh prime minister to be appointed since Mr Mubarak took over the presidency in 1981.
In the first place the fall of Mr Mubarak removed an obstacle to Egypt playing a fuller role.
The fourth is a former air-force general, Ahmed Shafiq, who was briefly prime minister as Mr Mubarak fell.
Most of Egypt's ministers are lacklustre technocrats, and several have been in power as long as Mr Mubarak.
One of Mr Mubarak's mooted reforms, it appears, will be to reduce the judiciary's longstanding role in supervising elections.
Mr Mubarak's critics say that changing the 5% rule is not nearly enough to stop the system being juggled.
It is overstretched with other commitments just now, and also miffed by Mr Mubarak's unwillingness to offer open support.
Mr Mubarak's failure to encourage the emergence of any strong personalities has given rise to all sorts of speculation.
And since Mr Mubarak's overthrow in January 2011, Christian Egyptian leaders have expressed concerns about political gains made by Islamists.
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For Egyptians to shake their mood of tired apathy, Mr Mubarak needs to do more than this tentative first step.
Mr Mubarak may be trying to avert just such a threat by grooming his modern-minded son, Gamal, as his successor.
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