Playing persecution the ethnic minority struggling to find sanctuary outside of china. Egypts 1st democratically elected president has died after collapsing in court while on trial on espionage charges gyptian state t. V. Says Mohamed Morsi had a heart attack the 67 year old Muslim Brotherhood leader had been in prison since 2013 when he was toppled after less than a year in office and a statement the Muslim Brotherhood says that held president abdel fatah has government responsible for what it calls the planned criminal killing of morsy the son says he gyptian authorities have refused permission for morsi to be buried at the family plot human rights activists say more his 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 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 help the via a medical source has revealed the details of the medical condition of Mohamed Morsi who died monday afternoon due to a surprise heart attack during a Court Session for the espionage case the source added that morsi had continued to receive medical care and that there was no neglect to his medical condition in and out of prison. But human Rights Groups say egyptian authorities ignored multiple warnings about morsy untimely death because of inhumane prison conditions that he was singled out for mistreatment. In the 1st 4 years of his detention you had exactly who family was he was held in solitary confinement for nearly the entire time he was tension he never received the medical care that he asked for he was not allowed to have the food and medicine provided by his family that virtually all other prisoners in egypt are able to access last year a panel of british politicians and lawyers said treatment in prison was so bad that it could amount to torture. A predicts that if you didnt get the appropriate medical treatment he may very well have a promise for us out of our torture is a crime of universal jurisdiction and we found that the responsibility for that would sit all the way up the egyptian chain of. Come on now here are the more they are worth a lot of air and the man who sits at the top of the chain of command is egypts current leader preston uphill for the c. C. The former army chief ousted morsi in a military coup in 2013 and since then has locked up thousands of people as Political Prisoners this is the outcome that the Egyptian Government kinds wanted for years morsi and also for other brotherhood leaders like mommy. They dont want necessarily to execute people because of. The execution it would create but they want. There now calls for an International Investigation into morsi Steffen Court while his life in prison seemed entirely nor by the one Priyanka Gupta disease. Or a challenge looks at the rise and fall of Mohamed Morsi me Mohamed Morsi sailed into the presidency of egypt on the winds of a peoples revolution demanding change in 2012 he became egypts 1st ever democratically elected president the 1st civilian to hold the office morsi was born in 1901 he spent his adult life 1st as an engineering professor then as a member of parliament and a political prisoner the egyptian revolution in 2011 set the stage for morsi to reach the pinnacle of power from the start of his critics accused him of placing his allegiance with the Muslim Brotherhood and not the country morsi made a point of repeatedly promising to be a president for all egyptians his opponents however claim he tried to consolidate his power by giving himself for thought see above the judiciary and dominating the governments with Muslim Brotherhood members. Morsi said his actions were to combat counter revolutionary forces led by the socalled deep state that wanted to kill egypts nascent to. Crecy those forces included members of the military as well as regional powers namely the u. A. E. And saudi arabia who were vehemently opposed to the arab spring and june 23rd seen in scenes reminiscent of the revolution huge crowds of egyptians filled square calling for their president to step down it was a culmination of the Rebel Campaign a movement which was born a few months prior and was later revealed to being supported by abu dhabi morsi supporters took to the streets to which emboldened him and he refused to step down instead he made an offer of National Reconciliation including forming a new government of technocrats that offer was rejected by the army which days later deposed him ending egypts historic but brief experiment with democracy 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 groups and crossing a mass jailbreak when guards or killed. Numerous human Rights Groups as well as British Parliamentarians and his family complained of intentional medical neglect and warns that morsi is imprisonment conditions would lead to his death if not improved to the end he was defiant rejecting the Courts Authority and insisting he was the legitimate president of egypt elected by the people. Of a Muslim Brotherhood has told al jazeera that their Security Forces will bury morsi in cairo late at night denying him a proper funeral lecithin on that has really only home has in place of course this is 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 it as a day morsi was martyred after he was killed by the military coup he said well you know lawrence is a professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George WashingtonUniversity Joins us live from washington d. C. Thank you very much so. The way Mohamed Morsi and his family are being treated even in death what message is the current Egyptian Government trying to set. Well its very clear message of rejection of authoritarian control of the Muslim Brotherhood of the former president of his family of his colleagues the message is relenting and very clear that they do not tolerate any kind of dissent and its important to point out that morsy was defiant he was defiant as president and he was defiant in prison and so this in part led to the circumstances that he found himself in that said the regime in place now refused medical care for a chronically diabetic man who had a heart condition as a connection to that someone who had Liver Disease and kept him in solitary confinement 23 hours a day which according to un guidelines amounts to torture for years and refused family visits and food and Everything Else so you know whether or not they murdered him they certainly were criminally negligent and violated basic standards of how to detain prisoners violating his human rights and and the denials coming out now are not very convincing so when you talk about those denials right this is a this is a former president and a former head of state who was elected would you expect to to hear the science human Rights Groups would you expect to hear other nations other heads of states to call this out to ask for some sort of an investigation into what happened. I think so i think egypt to a large degree has been falling out of favor with western nations the u. S. Several times in the last few years has cut egyptian assistance only route to restore most of it but on human rights grounds i think patience is wearing a little bit thin with egypt with the with saudi arabia followed in the killing and so i would expect some condemnation from western governments but obviously. Thats only bare so much fruit because obviously his regime is the one in place and thats the one that western governments have to deal with so most of the criticism will come from the press i mean human Rights Groups so when you know we were just talking about how Mohamed Morsi was treated and prison if he was treated that way what does that say about how other thousands of other Political Prisoners are treated and egyptian prisons and jails. Why i think theres 2 sides to that story on the other hand morsi was refused to many things that others are permitted so in egypt as in many other parts of the world when the family visits they can bring you food they can bring you medicine and this happens in egypt but it didnt happen for morsi and he was singled out a number of other ways that said overall the conditions in egyptian prisons are quite bad we have tens of thousands of people imprisoned either directly on political grounds or or indirectly because there are more or less prisoners of conscience including much of the leadership and rank and file of the Muslim Brotherhood and that will continue to be a harsh circumstances of detention for these gentlemen that dont see any improvements coming so far this regime has been generally resistant to any kind of criticism generally when theyve made concessions to the American Government it had to do with dual nationals american citizens in detention that sort of thing certainly they made a few concessions regarding reporters went with that pressure was put on but overall the regime has been staunchly defensive and authoritarian and ruthless at times and i dont expect that to change anytime soon i am lawrence thank you for your insight and joining us from washington appreciate it. Now in november 2017 Mohamed Morsi spoke about the conditions of his imprisonment he said he had no access to lawyers or medical treatment the since the 20th of september ive been in prison and ive been isolated there glassman is in front of me i tried to speak to the court about different problems but the court decided not to hear or see me after so many days when they turned on the lights it was very painful i cant see the court except in shadows sometimes ahead of witnesses and sometimes i dont but im speaking very clearly ive got a lot to say to the court i havent seen a doctor and i havent seen my lawyers have a right to be seen and to be present i am in a very very bad situation if you treat me in this way i am having morsi im extremely worried about egypt. Im adar was minister of planning and International Cooperation during the last 2 months of orse his presidency he says his death is a criminal act. The 1st reaction is that we are. Facing a complete. Action of murder this is a necessary nation a crime that must be dealt this way and. A lot of people over the world have been warning against this for a long time we have members of the British Parliament headed by sir tristram blunt. Who tried to have a committee visit to mostly to examine his Health Conditions after reports of visits to rating health sure that the team will never allow a proper funeral for dr morsi im sure they will not allow any any kind of gathering for the people for an event like that they will never allow him to be buried properly in his his home village which will be definitely out of their control. My expectation is that they were they will try to bury quietly that he wont area where only his family will be present maybe they they wont even allow it 70 m. In this is. They can do anything but i dont think they will let they will allow any occasion where a lot of people could be gathering for a funeral and a major event like that. For me is an associate professor of Political Science at Long Island University and author of egypt any contradictions of liberalism she says a lack of International Reaction is telling. What we have heard out of the United Nations the United States the european leaders is silence and so the question is why is there not a call for the independent investigation of the death every world leader at the hands of another now a few months ago on this very program when i when i was asked about well president micron has said that you know egyptian Human Rights Violations will need to be accounted for well then why still france still selling great amounts of arms to egypt more so than any other western nation why does President Trump here in the United States continue to say c. C. Is doing a great job even in terms of the war on terror hes failing and so the question is if western nations continue to see stability in the region through the iron handed fist what were asking ourselves is this really reality hes failing in the war on terror hes failing in terms of domestic stability and this the leaders death of a world leader in a prison indicates that the democratic aspirations of egyptians and arabs in general are not only lost but are no longer part of the agenda of the west towards the middle east are testers in new york in istanbul have demonstrated to show their anger over morsi apollos calls for the Muslim Brotherhood for egyptians living abroad to march in front of embassies and condemn they call the killing mosques in turkey will hold funeral prayers for Mohamed Morsi on tuesday president edge of type word one has his own personal tribute. In our eyes Mohammed Morsi is a martyr who lost his life while he fought for the cause he believed history will never forget the tyrants who put him in prison threaten them with the Death Penalty and caused his massive we formed a close friendship with him before he was elected as president and preserved that afterwards morsi who was put on trial by a court established by the code ministration and simply asked him to death gave his last breath in a courtroom and this is a symbol of the cruelty inflicted upon him and his people for years. A mere katara shake to maintain harmony all funny has tweeted we have received with deep sadness the news about the sudden death of former president dr Mohamed Morsi i said my sincere condolences to his family and to the egyptian people hartson is the head of the Egyptian Revolutionary Council which was the Main Organization advocating for morsi to be reinstated as president he says more of his condition had deteriorated over the years he was in solitary confinement he suffered from diabetes he lost sight in one ali 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 very little action on the part of the International Community but more importantly no response from the egyptian regime which we hold responsible for whats happened to dr morsi responsibility goes to the highest level of the state to see himself to the Security Forces and the judiciary that is an all move the military they are all responsible for whats happening to political dissidents and today to egypts 1st democratically 1st democratically elected president. 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