Khaled Abdel Nasser, a son of Egypt’s most revered leader, who captured the world’s attention in the late 1980s when he was tried and acquitted of helping to assassinate two Israeli diplomats, died Sept. 15 at a Cairo hospital. He was 62.

The Egyptian government announced the death. The cause was complications from digestive surgery, news reports said.

Nasser was the oldest of the five sons of Gamal Abdel Nasser, who helped lead the 1952 revolution that overthrew the Egyptian monarchy and who served as president of Egypt from 1956 to 1970.

President Nasser was hailed in the Arab world for championing pan-Arab nationalism and opposition to Israel.

Khaled Abdel Nasser was indicted in 1988 on charges of murder, attempted murder and conspiracy to murder in connection with what was said to be his membership in a leftist revolutionary organization, Egypt’s Revolution.

The group had claimed responsibility for killing two Israeli diplomats and trying to kill U.S. diplomats. Nasser was said to have been one of the group’s three founders and to have arranged financing from Libya.

The legal case aroused Egyptians, many of whom opposed their country’s 1979 peace treaty with Israel. They were appalled that the son of their national hero faced the death penalty.

Nasser and four others were acquitted in 1991.