With this report from laura baron manny. 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 theres a member of parliament and a political prisoner. The to 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 to 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 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 instea
A sad day not only for the muslim brothers but also for the egyptian people and for his family and for arabs and muslims and especially for the Palestinian People who witnessed how most he stood with them in the war theres no doubt that history will remember that as a day morsi was mounted after he was killed by the military he. Is the head of the Egyptian Revolutionary Council which was the Main Organization advocating for morsi to be reinstated as president he says morsi his condition has deteriorated over the years. He was in solitary confinement he suffered from diabetes he lost sight in one and we made this public through the press conferences that we held as the Egyptian Revolutionary Council alongside with other human rights organizations and lawyers its something Human Rights Watch has pointed to we sent letters and met with policymakers and with agencies of the United Nations there was sympathy but fairly little action on the part of the International Community but more import
Egypts 1st democratically elected president has died after collapsing in court while on trial on espionage charges Egyptian State t. V. Says Mohamed Morsi had a heart attack hed been in prison since 2013 when he was toppled often less than a year in power and a statement to the Muslim Brotherhood says it holds president. And his government responsible for what it calls the plan to criminal killing of morsi his lawyer says his body has now been buried in cairo morsi son says egyptian authorities refused permission for him to be laid to rest at the family plot and human rights activists say morsy is medical condition was ignored by egyptian authorities and harsh conditions in solitary confinement could have led to a premature death explains. A death that human rights activists have called tragic but predictable and what former egyptian president Mohamed Morsy supporters say is a model 17 june 29000. 00 morsi appeared in court for a trial on charges of espionage he asked the judge if you
Persecution the ethnic minorities struggling to find sanctuary outside of china. Welcome to the program egypts only democratically elected president Mohammed Morsi has been buried at a cemetery in cairo a day after he died in court these pictures were taken by Security Forces kept journalists away from the burial site son says theyve also refused to allow his father to be buried in his hometown print gupta takes us through reaction to his death which Rights Groups blame on years of paul prison conditions. A death that human rights activists have called tragic but predictable and what former egyptian president Mohamed Morsy supporters say is a model 17 june 29000. 00 morsi appeared in court for a trial on charges of espionage he asked a judge if you could speak to him the session in what is now his final address morsi demanded a special tribunal and better trial conditions the public prosecutors say the 67 year old man collapsed and died in a defendants cage. Unless all of us a little h
Controversial changes to extradition laws. In the u. S. Releases new images it says implicate iran into oil tanker explosions its also deploy more troops. Welcome to the Program Egypt only democratically elected president Mohammed Morsi has been buried at a cemetery in cairo a day after he died in court these pictures were taken there by Security Forces journalists away from the Burial Service morsy sons as they also refuse to allow his father to be buried in his hometown Priyanka Gupta takes us through reaction to his death which Rights Groups blame on years of paul prison conditions. A death that human rights activists have called tragic but predictable and what former egyptian president Mohamed Morsy supporters say is a model 17 june 29000. 00 morsi appeared in court for a trial on charges of espionage he asked a judge if you could speak to him the session in what is now his final address morsi demanded a special tribunal and better trial conditions the public prosecutors say the 67