Im fully back to live in doha youre watching aljazeera and the former age of shin president Mahmoud Morsi has died during a Court Session in cairo this monday morsi was the 1st democratically elected president of egypt and was deposed in a military court in 2013 the coup was led by the current president of egypt Abdel Fattah Elsisi who was then the military chief morsy has been in jail for more than 5 years on what critics have described as politically motivated charges will begin our coverage with this report from laura birdman. Mohamed morsi sailed into the presidency of egypt with the winds of the peoples revolution demanding change. In 2012 he became egypts 1st democratically elected president and the 1st civilian to hold office. Morsi was born in 1951 he spent his adult life 1st as an engineering professor then as a member of parliament on a political prisoner. The egyptian revolution in 2011 set the stage for morsi to reach the pinnacle of power. A year after egyptians overthrew longtime dictator Hosni Mubarak morsi took the oath of office to replace him from the start secular egyptians were suspicious that morsi is really the agents who continue to be with the Muslim Brotherhood it similarly learn. I swear to god i will protect this republics democracy and i will protect the constitution and rule of law and i will safeguard the interests of the egyptian people and the safety and sovereignty of egypt. Morsi promised to be a president for all egyptians instead critics say he tried to consolidate his power by giving himself authority above the judiciary and dominating the government with Muslim Brotherhood members. Morsi is opposition refused to be silenced in june 2013 in scenes reminiscent of the revolution millions of egyptians fill to the square calling for the president to step down morsi refused and often National Reconciliation days later the army to post have ending egypts historic but brief experiment with democracy. And. I would like to pay my respects to our martyrs and those who were injured in our revolution if it wasnt for their blood we would not have this revolution and we would not have home. Stripped of the title of president morsi swiftly became a political prisoner once again. He was ultimately tried and sentenced to death for allegedly working with Foreign Armed groups and plotting a mass jailbreak when guards were killed to the end morsi was defiant rejecting the Courts Authority and insisting he was the it just meant president of egypt elected by the people. And reactions have been coming in to news of Mohammed Morsi death egypts 1st democratically elected president whos died this monday during a Court SessionHuman Rights Watch has said that is holding the government responsible for morsy is death because of the lack of medical treatment and the poor conditions that he was being held in. Executive director of middle east and north africa at Human Rights Watch and she tweeted this egypts new says the only democratically elected president morsi has died in prison after a stroke this is terrible but entirely predictable she tweets given the governments failure to allow him adequate medical care much less family visits Human Rights Watch was just finalizing a report on his health says sally aware of Human Rights Watch child is here with us in the studio is our correspondent whos covered egypt extensively was in egypt in cairo when one of morsi was ousted in july of 2013 lets talk about the conditions that he was being held in prison for over 5 years nearly 6 years now very soon in my scope including Human Rights Watch have denounced these conditions what do we know about how he was held just looking now at an article far remember reading this was published in the independent newspaper. April 4th 2000 or year and a couple months ago and the title of the articles if Mohammed Morsi is treatment in egypts tora prison doesnt. You could freeze a premature death out in this regard british and he had had warned about that had gone on in the nation and its spoken with with people who are familiar with the conditions inside and. So forth and i think where was he being held was it tora Prison Service and is a prison compound it has several prisons in it its the scorpion it has. The mozart or its. Several compounds present compounds has become within that the scorpion prison is the most notorious it is where they keep solitary confinement for most of the Senior Leaders of the opposition not just the Muslim Brotherhood but some of their allies as well but. His specific location was very difficult to ascertain constantly because he had been moved on more than one occasion but be he was not given any access to his family when his lawyer was allowed to see him it would have to be in the presence of Security Officials which meant there was no country charlotta between the 2 and more importantly no independent medical examination was ever allowed him despite those repeated calls by his family by the lawyer by International Organizations and so forth and thats why it is very difficult when were talking about narratives here and language which is so significant a state c. V. Controlled by the Egyptian Military by the government says he died but if youre should be accurate about it and look at Human Rights Watch themselves in this british delegation the prevention of medical treatment to an inmate purposefully and continuously over such a long period of time would bare minimum in terms of legal would be described as manslaughter if not would actually be purposeful death how do his detention conditions compare to those of another president of egypt who was also held in prison who was ousted in fact as well by at the military and that is Hosni Mubarak how do you see how the comparison is almost 90 years old so its significant hes got a good 3 or 4 decades on 100 morsi he entered prison came out. Fit as a fiddle even though he was allegedly there for a good year and a bit. Obviously went in a lot healthier and you could see the pictures comparative with the few that were broadcast from those secret Court Hearings that took place and you can see but we saw. How soon barak was brought in on these questions stretchers he wasnt made to stand in court when the judge would would call his name he would stay seated when he was rolled in would have police and Security Officials so im a military salute as you would walk in so there was very clear difference here but beyond the comparison and obviously from a political perspective a lot of people will be comparing you know a 30 year or dictator with the 1st democratically elected president and how the military treated one of its own to that but from a human rights perspective and this is where its very important because its very easy particularly considering the stigma thats associated with political islam for people maybe true sense that if they were to criticize the human rights conditions that she was kept in that that would be translated as support for thats movement or for their ideologies but it with any corsair they need to play even internationally because the United States for example there is that talk of prescribing the Muslim Brotherhood and there is a lot of that in one in which he was democratically elected by and this is the point when you get beyond the democratically elect the fact that the fact that he was democratically elected just from a human rights perspective the legal to europes if anybody wants to believe in human rights or kind of the liberal. Standings and morals that people aspire towards the treatment of Mohamed Morsy in the continued solitary confinement in the fact that he was prevented medical treatment in the fact that he wasnt allowed see his lawyer all of that would be enough to criticize the egyptian authorities and to great extent level against on the charges of at least permitting or allowing for a climate that expedia that they has been. Criticism to be fair to a certain extent from human Rights Groups from these british parliamentarians who visited morsi and saw the conditions that he was in why was de not more why was in not more pressure from the west from the europeans for instance thats a very good question. I mean i would i would guess here as somebody whos covered the region and whos lived in the United Kingdom for a very long time and elsewhere that if Mohamed Morsi was lets say. Not from the Muslim Brotherhood or was the liberal secular. Figure that there would be a lot more outcry and even insistence on him to do that that go do you think theyre going to be out trying now that is died. Vs within egypt within egypt there will be domestically there will be how thats translated is a different story because Egyptian Society right now is in between 3 men kind of psyches right there are those who are down and defeated in the century a sense that life has battered them over the past 8 or 9 years cannot make leigh socially theyve either had you know comically their condition is going to a lot worse or they have people in jail and so forth and therefore theyre just exhausted from fighting for a new future thats one type of psyche there is another psyche which is now indifference they say that people have gone to the streets theyve protested more than once either for the revolution or even against Mohamed Morsi and in both or situations arguably their will has been hijacked and therefore they dont see a point in mobilizing and then there is a 3rd segment of society who still do believe in a Better Future but theyd like a vehicle to mobilize another vehicle used to be organizations like the Muslim Brotherhood but because their leadership has been depleted their resources have been depleted they are homeless now they dont find a Political Movement organization thats able to gather them the way in which we saw that happening in egypt over the past few decades and i thank you very much for that jamal and child and were getting more reactions on social media to market morsi death abigail holts now who is a Washington Post reporter and former cairo bureau chief for the Washington Post tweeted this the only thing that would be truly surprising to me about morsy is courtroom death in this context is if the regimes intentional neglect of his health needs and or the use of actual torture where not contributing factors now earlier i spoke to now there is shami was director of the center for middle east studies at the university of denver he says what happened to Mohammed Morsi shows that peaceful political change is impossible in egypt. I think fundamentally it is a setback for the prospects of peaceful political change in egypt and its going to be a victory i think over the long term for the forces of violence of radical extremism who will point to the story of Mohamed Morsi as a failed politician who respected the outcome of the ballot box but was prevented from implementing his policies because of the Egyptian Military backed by the west so the conclusion i think here for many people in egypt is that if you want to bring about political change the only way to do it would be through violent revolution so i think one of the long term consequences here of the story of Mohamed Morsi is that you radical extremist elements in the in egypt and in the arab world are going to interpret this story as an affirmation for their policy of a violent revolution and i think thats going to be one of the you know consequences that we will be seeing in the coming months and years i joining us now here in the studio in doha my job is where he has a direct study center at Qatar University thank you majid for coming in at such short notice within of course getting various reactions to news a lot of morsels death what are your initial thoughts i mean its important to remind the viewers of 3 main facts that this is the 1st the makati president of egypt number 2 he was kidnapped from his office when he was a president he was taken he was isolated he was taken and for the last 5 years of peace he was basically banned of seeing his family he was banned of the basic health. You know what he needed for his health he was he was basically disconnected with the world so these are 3 facts happening. In the 21st century were modern world or try to define democracy and and liberal and the values and this is a president who was basically who won the 1st election the democratic election of egypt so hes out of here was a ration its important to him to remember them and say this is the president he was also died while he was in court right and here is quite interesting that we didnt even know that he was in court or that there was that sure that basically he wasnt court there was no independent sources and courts there was no independent organization of human rights the only the only sources we have is the sources of the Egyptian Government with absolutely biased was absolutely cannot be trusted and then you wake up to the fact that the the former president he is hes passed away basically and hes died so basically they will be trusting whats coming in now from cairo about is this we are expecting a statement from the gyptian state prosecutor about the circumstances of one of morses death as we said he said have died during a Court Session he fainted and was later pronounced dead but very interesting that in 2018 a group of british parliamentarians who visited him in the present and had reported about his conditions had warned about his health and had said that the way in which he was how the conditions in which he was held could lead to his premature death what do you think were going to hear from the state prosecutor about what happened i think in addition to this he himself actually made the statement 3 years ago in the court and he said there was attempt to kill him in his in the jail base or in his room so basically he himself one of the government there was attempt to kill him so basically. Important you know the importance of such a statement is why there was no action why there was no action from you know the western Human Rights Organization and the government where he lives why should be fair has had denounced be the only organization was fair even the statement we heard in the last 2 hours was fair i mean i mean all of the. Human rights bodies in the world did they have not made the real actions to pressure the government in egypt so all of this i mean why do you think that is was it because Mahmoud Morsi represented a movement that is the Muslim Brotherhood yes i think a very controversial one iran i think the politics in the world in the last 510 years there was something going grown wrong against all of what the west believe in which is a liberal values about human rights there was a serious a problem or this that is denying of these values because no one actually caring about this vote we saw this in egypt we saw this a libyan we saw this in tunisia we saw this in yemen and all of this look at that whats happened yemen look at what have we speak about president morsi but how many egyptian now the died actually in the last 2 years has 100 maybe 1000 of egyptian actually died in the prison and no one known about them so there is there is a you know a huge issue maybe the diff of hamid morsi is a wake up call to anyone in the world today defending the word to be a wake up call though do you think its going to have any effect are not just events in egypt but also in the region it should have. Put you know the previous events unfortunately did not affect you know the train when it comes to the human rights especially in our region in the middle east there is the list carrying on it comes to the region and there is no one actually taking care of this values because they assume these been designed to others not to the people and in the region i think there is a double standard when it comes to this. In the last. You use for example despite all of this what used just it now about the. Parliamentary committee in the u. K. And im sure there were other actually statement done by british newspapers and american newspapers in the last 5 years i read many of these kind of statements a warning to the government that his circumstances will lead to his death is if not today will be tomorrow so there there was sort of a criticism to the government but there was no serious political pressure to change his circumstances no serious political pressure look we used to have in the last 40 years pressure from the United States pressure from the rippin you know it come when it comes to the human rights matters in the last 10 years 15 years since since our spring all of those issues has fortunately disappeared. Thank you very much for joining us on aljazeera as we continue to bring you reaction to news of Mohammed Morsi is death egypts 1st democratically elected president died this monday during a Court Session reaction from the emir of qatar who says we have received with deep sadness the news about the sudden death of the former egyptian president Mohammed Morsi and he says i send my sincere condolences to his family and to the gyptian people a message from the emir of qatar share hamad been. Shot i mean bin hamad are funny reacting to news of wanted morsi is death well lets take a closer look at morses recent history he was as weve mentioned egypts 1st and only freely elected president who took power in 2012 he was elected a year after an uprising against former president Hosni Mubarak but morsi was also pushed from power deposed in a military coup after mass protests against his rule the coup was led by the current president of egypt Abdel Fattah Sisi who was at the Time Military chief morsy was sentenced to death in several cases over allegations including prison breaks and attacks on police stations during the uprising the former Muslim Brotherhood leader also received a life sentence for allegedly spying for iran hamas and hezbollah his supporters say the charges against him were politically motivated theyre trying get some more reaction now and bring in mike hanna whos at the white house in washington forests mike any any reaction from the u. S. Administration. As yet no formal reaction to the news of Mohamed Morsi death but the trumpet ministration very clearly closely aligned to the president of the present president of egypt and certainly within the trumpet ministrations stated comments morsi seen very much as what they term a terrorist are arguing very strongly elements of the administration that as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood he is as such and there has been no protests from the trumpet ministration as to Muhammad Morsi treatment while he has been in prison now this was not always the case of the u. S. Administration remembering that the Previous Administration that of barack obama actually court behind that morsi welcomed his democratic election in egypt but then at the time of his ouster by the military the Obama Administration backed away from any clear support for him admits much disagreement within that particular administration but there were elements who came into the trumpet ministration who had been there in the past in particular the man who served trampas secretary of defense for a while James Mattis James Mattis arguing very strongly in the obama era that Mohamed Morsi was not to be trusted he criticized barack obama for his relationship with behind but morsi for the fact that barack obama chose one must remember to his 1st overseas trip to cairo to make a speech recognizing the arab spring so certainly the u. S. Administration has gone backwards and forwards over the past decade with regard to Mohamed Morsi and what about with regard to the Muslim Brotherhood the movement that Mohamed Morsi led when he was elected president of egypt in 2012 they had been some talks in recent months in washington of labeling the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization where do things stand on. That is quite correct thats an ongoing discussion within the trumpet ministration does appear that the weight of opinion within the administration is to do exactly that to declare the Muslim Brotherhood a Terror Organization but there are some within the administration who point to the fact that in a number of areas the Muslim Brotherhood has been democratically elected as the government its been part of a democratic process in a number of countries not just in gaza where the Muslim Brotherhood backed hamas actually took power in a democratic election but also in countries such as tim is here where the brotherhood is part of the political process so this is one thing that has in a way restrained the administration from taking further action against the brotherhood the fact that some within the administration argue very strongly that the Muslim Brotherhood is part of a Democratic Political process in a number of countries and by declaring it a Terror Organization it would impact on the u. S. Relations with those particular countries so this despite the urging of leaders such as president l. T. C. Certainly israel has been arguing very strongly to the trumpet ministration that the brotherhood should be declared a Terror Organization but to date the Administration Still would appear to be pondering the situation no decision has been taken as yet and there is a body of thought in the administration that is opposed to that because of the role that the Muslim Brotherhood plays in the democratic process in a number of countries thank you for that my cannot live for us in washington d. C. And we are getting some new signs now from egypt Public Prosecutor who says that the medical report shows that there were no apparent recent injuries on Mohamed Morsi his body a reminder that de gyptian state television reported earlier that the present the former egyptian president. Collapsed during a Court Session and was later. Pronounced dead now the Public Prosecutor is saying that the medical report shows no apparent recent injuries on morses body they have of course been various reports by human Rights Groups which have said that he had been held under very difficult conditions in detention had been tortured even. Egypts Public Prosecutor also saying that morsy was pronounced dead at 4 50 pm local time in hospital after collapsing during a Court Session in cairo but adding again that there were no apparent recent injuries on his body lets get some more reaction now this time from europe and we bring in our who is in paris for as we heard from mike hanna just a short while ago who said that they had been no protests over the conditions in which Mohammed Morsi was being held by the United States but what about the europeans are they saying anything about his. So far its only local media which is reporting the death of former president Mohamed Morsy is also being now to eat all the social Media Networks here friends with the media saying that theyre waiting for more details about the circumstances that led to his death as far as politicians are concerned the government no reaction for us so far and one of the reasons why we may not get any reaction so for the time being about the death of Mohamed Morsi is the position the fronts decided to take us far as the egyptian case is concerned particularly says the military coup in 2013 the friends shifted the position towards more support for president has easy and saying that the reason why they are selling what purpose of the Egyptian Government is because they consider governor have to be a ball work against the winds of armed groups in the region and again as if stream is a to the point where it was quoted when theyre saying that france had to take what he described as a pragmatic stance when it comes to egypt is concerned dismissing some of the. Some of the statements made by human rights agencies which have described the clamp down of your rights activists on the Muslim Brotherhood and what more see him self. And particularly about the trial as a cerate. What you of course he was the 1st democratically elected president of egypt in 2012 what was the kind of relationship he had with these western powers when he was elected during the year that he was in office. It was 2011 it was the very height of the arab spring a moment when western countries the americans in particular followed by the french and the germans thought that. Conservative groups like the Muslim Brotherhood in egypt like in tunisia could be included in political process to pave the way from more inclusive democracies although very nascent democracies in the middle east but then when events further escalate or deteriorated in places like libya like yemen like syria and after the military age of theres been a dramatic change in the position of those countries saying that it would be wise to deal with a strong man like a defector has sisi in egypt instead of. Of waiting what could. Happen in the near future and that was a turning point thats where the moment france for example from 2013 to 2017 became the biggest supplier of weapons to egypt selling fighter jets warships to the Egyptian Government and when the International Community human rights activists human rights agencies were saying that france should stop selling weapons or use that as a leverage to convince the Egyptian Government to reach out of the opposition and stop clamping down on the activists french government said that the reason why it was providing more support for the Egyptian Government in particular for the egyptian on the worst to ensure that armed groups which have become very active in the region would not be given further chance to take over more territory in the region so you can see that shift in the position of countries like the west i think they decided ultimately that for the benefit of stability in the region it. The much better for them to deal with the government of the fact there has to see this spying struck record when it comes to human rights abuses which have been denounced by the International Community and also by he were wise as is thank you for that live for us in paris its 1730 g. M. T. Youre watching aljazeera live from doha with continuing coverage of the death of egypts former president Mohamed Morsy egypts Public Prosecutors say the former leader collapsed in a Court Earlier today and was later pronounced dead at 4 50 pm local time at hospital the Public Prosecutor saying that the medical report shows that there are no apparent race and injuries on Mohamed Morsi as body even though human Rights Groups had said that he had been tortured while being held in detention in egypt the former president was ousted in 2013 by the military which was led by the current president of egypt. Lets take a look back now at the life and legacy of Mohammed Morsi with this report from mountains there as laura birdman. Mohamed morsi sailed into the presidency of egypt with the winds of the peoples revolution demanding change. In 2012 he became egypts 1st democratically elected president and the 1st civilian to hold office. Morsi was born in 1951 he spent his adult life 1st as an engineering professor then as a member of parliament on a political prisoner. The egyptian revolution in 2011 set the stage for morsi to reach the pinnacle of power. A year after egyptians overthrew longtime dictator Hosni Mubarak morsi took the oath of office to replace him from the start secular egyptians were suspicious that morsi is really the agents who continue to be with the Muslim Brotherhood x. Similarly larry. I swear to god i will protect this republics democracy and i will protect the constitution and rule of law and i will safeguard the interests of the egyptian people and the safety and sovereignty of egypt. Morsi promised to be a president for all egyptians instead critics say he tried to consolidate his power by giving himself authority above the judiciary and dominating the government with Muslim Brotherhood members. Morsi opposition refused to be silenced in june 2013 in scenes reminiscent of the revolution millions of egyptians fill to the square calling for the president to step down morsi refused to National Reconciliation days later the army to post have ending egypts historic but brief experiment with democracy. And. I would like to pay my respects to our martyrs and those who were injured in our revolution if it wasnt for their blood we would not have this revolution and we would not have home. Stripped of the title of president morsi swiftly became a political prisoner once again. He was ultimately tried and sentenced to death for allegedly working with Foreign Armed groups and plotting a mass jailbreak point guards were killed to the end morsi was defiant rejecting the Courts Authority and insisting he was the it just meant president of egypt elected by the people