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Egypt's Ousted President Mohammed Morsi Dies in Court, State TV Says
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2:52Now PlayingMohamed Mursi, a bespectacled and portly Muslim Brotherhood foot-soldier elevated from obscurity to become Egypt’s first freely elected civilian president, has died. He was 67.
He collapsed and died while attending a court hearing, Egyptian state media reported.
Egypt’s public prosecutor said there was no evidence of marks or injuries to his body but investigators would conduct a full autopsy and examine courthouse video for evidence. Rights groups were quick to seize on his death as proof that authorities were denying Mursi proper medical care.
A former opposition lawmaker, Mursi was elected to the country’s top office in June 2012, less than 18 months after joining a jail break amid the chaos of a mass uprising that swept away the three-decade rule of Hosni Mubarak.
While he sought to project himself as the “voice for all Egyptians,” that aspiration was divorced from the reality of his Islamist credentials. He spent much of his year-long presidency unable to emerge from the shadow of top Brotherhood officials, who were viewed as the nation’s real power brokers.
His fall was as crushing as his rise to power was stratospheric. Ousted by his army chief -- the future President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi -- Mursi languished in prison after being convicted for conspiring with foreign militants in the prison breakout as well as passing state secrets to Qatar. The Brotherhood, a near-century-old movement that seeks to build societies centered on Islamic law, faced a sweeping crackdown in the wake of Mursi’s removal, with security forces killing hundreds of its supporters and imprisoning thousands.
“There’s no way to divorce Mursi’s fate from that of the Brotherhood,” said Hani Sabra, founder of the Alef Advisory consultancy in New York. “They were one and the same. He went the way of the Brotherhood.”
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