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
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. Well reactions have been coming in to news of Mohammed Morsi stephy emir of qatar been hammered out funny has tweeted weve received with deep sadness the news about the sudden death of former president dr Mohamed Morsi i send my sincere condole
A must for caroline to step back and to withdraw the evil lot. Just out of prison hong kong democracy activist Salazar Jazeera is joining the fight against extradition changes. At least 30 people were killed by suicide bombers in northeastern nigeria and how the easy availability of guns has allowed ethnic rivals to turn on each other in one of the worlds poorest nations where reports from central mali. But we begin with breaking news from egypt this hour where according to state Television Former president Mahmoud Warsi has died during a Court Session he was the 1st democratically elected president of egypt and was ousted in a military coup in july of 2013 more see as we said was ousted in 2013 he was asked said by the current president abdel fatah sisi and since december 23rd morsy had been in jail on a wire to egypt government critics have described as politically motivated charges again breaking news out of egypt where state television is reporting that the former president egypts