“The court granted him his request to speak for five minutes… He fell to the ground in the cage… and was transported immediately to the hospital. A medical report found… no pulse or breathing,” said the office of the attorney general.
“He arrived at the hospital dead at 4.50 pm exactly and there were no new, visible injuries found on the body.”
“We heard the banging on the glass cage from the rest of the other inmates and them screaming loudly that Morsi had died,” the lawyer, Osama El Helw, told AFP.
“I saw him from afar wheeled out on the stretcher from the courts complex.”
These are some of the details of the death of Egypt’s first democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi, in the courtroom on Monday.
The Islamist who was ousted after one year of divisive rule, died after falling ill during a court hearing on Monday, the attorney general said. He was 67.
Morsi, also the country’s first civilian president, had been, according to AFP, “animated” during a hearing in the retrial of an espionage case in which he was accused of collaborating with adverse foreign powers and militant groups, judicial and security sources said.
” from Tora, in southern Cairo, said another one of his lawyers, Abdelmoneim Abdel-Maksoud.
Since Morsi’s overthrow on July 3, 2013, his former defence minister now President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has waged an ongoing crackdown targeting his supporters from the Muslim Brotherhood with thousands jailed and hundreds facing death sentences.
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