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<h6><span style="color: #292222;"><strong>Egypt&#8217;s first democratically elected leader president Mohamed Morsi, 67, died Monday after collapsing in a Cairo court during his trial on charges of espionage </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #292222;"><strong>Fellow Muslim Brotherhood party members declare death of the ousted hardline president, &#8216;premeditated murder&#8217;</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #292222;"><strong>The 67-year-old former president who was ousted in a 2013 coup by current president, Abdel-Fatah al-Sisi, had been addressing a judge for 20 minutes before collapsing<br />
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<h6><span style="color: #292222;"><strong>Morsi died shortly after telling the judge that he had &#8216;many secrets&#8217; that, if he told them, he would be released.</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #292222;"><strong>He &#8216;was not telling them [secrets], because it would harm Egypt&#8217;s national security&#8217;, the deposed leader said<br />
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<h6><span style="color: #292222;"><strong>Morsi reportedly became &#8216;very animated&#8217; before collapsing in front of onlookers </strong></span></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #292222;">Mohamed Morsi whose 2015 death sentence was thrown out on retrial, had been serving a seven-year sentence for falsifying election papers in 2012</span><br />
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<h6 class="mol-para-with-font"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-321876" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Mohamed-Morsi-2.jpg" alt="Mohamed Morsi 2.jpg" width="800" height="450" /><strong>Former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi has died in court, state television reported on Monday</strong></h6>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Egypt&#8217;s former president Mohammed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood leader who rose to office in the country&#8217;s first free elections in 2012 and was ousted a year later by the military, has collapsed in court during a trial and died, state TV and his family said.<br />
The 67-year-old had just addressed the court, speaking from the glass cage he is kept in during sessions and warning that he had &#8216;many secrets&#8217; he could reveal, a judicial official said.<br />
A few minutes afterwards he collapsed, the official said.<br />
State TV said Mr Morsi died before he could be taken to hospital.</p>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-321875" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Mohamed-Morsi-1.png" alt="Mohamed Morsi 1" width="968" height="623" />Mohamed Morsi seen in court on trial for espionage charges in 2016, has been in prison undergoing multiple trials ever since the military ousted him in July 2013 and launched a massive crackdown on his party, the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist strongholds. </strong>Former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi has died in court, state television reported on Monday. Egyptian state tv confirms former president Mohamed Morsi&#8217;s death.</h6>
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<div>Morsi has been in prison undergoing multiple trials ever since the military ousted him in July 2013 and launched a massive crackdown on his Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists.</div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Monday&#8217;s session was part of a retrial, being held inside Cairo&#8217;s Tura Prison, on charges of espionage with the Palestinian Hamas militant group.<br />
Morsi&#8217;s son Ahmed confirmed the death of his father in a Facebook post.<br />
Mohammed Sudan, a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood now living in the UK, described Mr Morsi&#8217;s death as &#8216;premeditated murder&#8217;, saying that the former president was banned from receiving medicine or visits and there was little information about his health condition.<br />
&#8216;He has been placed behind a glass cage [during trials]. No-one can hear him or know what is happening to him. He hasn&#8217;t received any visits for a months or nearly a year. He complained before that he doesn&#8217;t get his medicine. This is premeditated murder. This is slow death.&#8217;<br />
The judicial official said the former president had asked to speak to the court during the session.<br />
The judge permitted it, and Morsi gave a speech saying he had &#8216;many secrets&#8217; that, if he told them, he would be released, but he added that he was not telling them because it would harm Egypt&#8217;s national security.</p>
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<strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-321880" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Mohamed-Morsi-5.jpg" alt="Mohamed Morsi 5" width="752" height="500" />Defiant deposed Egyptian president, Mohamed Morsi, appeared inside a cage in the Cairo courtroom where he was sentenced to death on June 15, 2015<br />
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Morsi was a longtime senior figure in Egypt&#8217;s most powerful Islamist group, the Muslim Brotherhood.<br />
He was elected in 2012 in the country&#8217;s first free presidential election, held a year after an Arab Spring uprising ousted Egypt&#8217;s longtime authoritarian leader Hosni Mubarak.<br />
His Muslim Brotherhood also held a majority in parliament.<br />
The military, led by then-defence minister Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, ousted Mr Morsi after massive protests against the Brotherhood&#8217;s domination of power.<br />
Mr El-Sissi was subsequently elected president and has waged a massive crackdown on Islamists and other opponents since.<br />
Since Mr Morsi&#8217;s ousting, Egypt&#8217;s government has declared the Brotherhood a terrorist organisation and largely crushed it with a heavy crackdown.<br />
Tens of thousands of Egyptians have been arrested since 2013, mainly Islamists but also secular activists who were behind the 2011 uprising.<br />
He has been sentenced to 20 years after being convicted of ordering Brotherhood members to break up a protest against him, resulting in deaths.</p>
<h6 class="mol-para-with-font"><img class="alignnone wp-image-321877" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Mohamed-Morsi-3.jpg" alt="Mohamed Morsi 3" width="695" height="433" /><strong>Ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi sits in the defendant&#8217;s cage during a court hearing in Cairo, Egypt, in Nov, 2014</strong></h6>
<p>The Muslim Brotherhood leader was sentenced to death in June 2015 in connection with a mass jail break during Egypt’s 2011 uprising.<br />
The first president to be democratically elected after the revolution, Morsi was overthrown in mid-2013 by general-turned-president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi during mass protests against his rule, and immediately arrested.<br />
An Egyptian court in June 2015, sentenced toppled Islamist president and Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Morsi to death in connection with a mass jail break during Egypt’s 2011 uprising.<br />
Two years his death sentence was overturned, a retrial was ordered. The death sentence was thrown out in the retrial. Morsi was no longer under threat of execution, although he began serving three long jail sentences.<br />
He had been sentenced to 20 years in prison without parole on charges arising from the killing of protesters in December 2012; 40 years on charges of spying for Qatar; and a life sentence on charges of spying for the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.<br />
Multiple cases are still pending.<br />
Morsi was held in a special wing in the sprawling Tora detention complex nicknamed Scorpion Prison.<br />
Rights groups say its poor conditions fall far below Egyptian and international standards.</p>
<h6 class="mol-para-with-font"><img class="alignnone wp-image-321879" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Mohamed-Morsi-4.jpg" alt="Mohamed Morsi 4" width="872" height="523" /><strong>An Egyptian court in June 2015, sentenced toppled Islamist president and Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Morsi to death in connection with a mass jail break during Egypt’s 2011 uprising. The death sentence was later overturned and replaced with stiff prison terms, including life in prison<br />
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<h6><span class="inline-triangle inline-icon "><img class="alignnone wp-image-321878" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Morsi-right-and-Abdel-Fatah-al-Sisi-at-the-presidential-palace-in-Cairo-1.jpg" alt="Morsi, right, and Abdel-Fatah al-Sisi at the presidential palace in Cairo 1" width="1040" height="624" /><strong>Then president Mohamed </strong></span><strong>Morsi, [right], is seen with Abdel-Fatah al-Sisi [left], at the presidential palace in Cairo in 2012. al-Sisi was to oust him a year later in a coup<br />
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<p>The former leader&#8217;s son Ahmed confirmed the death of his father in a Facebook post.<br />
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan paid tribute to Morsi after news of his death broke &#8211; calling him a &#8216;martyr.&#8217;<br />
&#8216;May Allah rest our Morsi brother, our martyr&#8217;s soul in peace,&#8217; said Erdogan, who had forged close ties with Morsi.<br />
Relations between Turkey and Egypt have been virtually non-existent since the Egyptian military, led by current president Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, in 2013 ousted Islamist president Morsi.<br />
Erdogan has strongly denounced Morsi&#8217;s ouster and called for the release of Muslim Brotherhood prisoners in Egypt.<br />
Speaking in Istanbul, Erdogan again took aim at Sisi, calling him a &#8216;tyrant&#8217; who took power in a &#8216;coup&#8217; and who has trampled on democracy.<br />
&#8216;The West has remained silent,&#8217; Erdogan said.<br />
Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said: &#8216;The coup moved him (Morsi) away from the power but his memory will not be erased.&#8217;</p>
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