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ALJAZ The World According To AI P2 July 14, 2024

Egypts 1st democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi has died during a Court Session in cairo the Public Prosecutor said he collapsed in the defendants cage shortly after addressing the court the 67 year old Muslim Brotherhood leader had been in prison since 2013 when he was toppled from power after less than a year as president his death was announced on Egyptian State t. V. Which said he was in court over his alleged contact with the Palestinian Group hamas. Mohamed morsi died today while attending assertion in his trial on espionage charges during the session he was granted permission to address the job after the session was adjourned the former president blacked out and then died his body was taken to a hospital and get it if it were a burden manly looks back now at the rise and fall of Mohamed Morsi. 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 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 their 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 thought oh honey 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 again. 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 im 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 the british conservative m. P. Crispin blunt led a panel commissioned by morsi family to investigate the conditions the former president was being held and he says what morsi experienced in prison could amount to torture and a full independent investigation into his death should be carried out well its the least he was a former president of egypt has been held in conditions that we found on the balance of probability actually was so bad in terms of how degrading they were or tough they were for him they could amount to a torture 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 command. If they have looked off to him since i have the venue would be egypts own interest to establish that raised obviously asked for permission to go and make a visit say that we can directly make our own assessment of the position she was held and that was declined so we then had to report on the basis of the evidence that we were able to gain. Well al jazeera is banned from egypt but our correspondent tamara shell has covered the country extensively and joins us live now from doha general any more information or details emerging about Mohamed Morsy is death. Little few and far between and it will be very difficult to see how a new will come in the media to try because. The armed group nature and rich. Control everything the only thing that was mentioned was this brief quote from a statements made by the Public Prosecutors office which was read on state television which refused even to put an image or video of Mohamed Morsi or an obituary reports about him it merely stated that Mohamed Morsi had died in an alleged Court Hearing and that the there was a very quick autopsy made on his body to which the Public Prosecutor says no signs of recent injuries were visible however that the Public Prosecutor had ordered more extensive. Assessments or examination of his corpse and that the video cameras that were apparently in place in this alleged courtroom would be investigated and examined by the Public Prosecutors office but myron its important to note that there is no transparency here for example the. Showcase hearing of the dictator Hosni Mubarak which was broadcast live on t. V. Where he was wheeled in by assistants where he was essentially saluted with military salutes by Security Officials Court Hearings were held largely secretly he wasnt given new gold us he wasnt allowed to have proper legal representation he was put into a soundproof glass cage only prerecorded footage of those cases were given and it wasnt open to the public or to Human Rights Organizations therefore as much as people be interested to know exactly what happened at the time of his death and if indeed he was he did die today considering that there is skepticism being put on that narrative considering that the fatah has you see the president of egypt isnt in egypt today and its difficult to see based on the knowledge we have of his nature. How he would have allowed for an announcement or the death of police right after his death when he wasnt in the country but aside from the questions about what happened today it is the 6 years proceeding thats the intentional medical neglect it is the torture of the sort of chicken farm and lack of political dress not just of most year but of the 10s of thousands of Political Prisoners among some journalists including our colleague Mahmoud Hussein that is what a lot of people will be questioning and whether indeed thats intentional mcclurkin is yet again more example of the human rights abuses or of the regime in egypt thank you for now Jamal Michelle joining us there from doha meanwhile International Reaction to morsi is death is so far been muted the mayor of cattle has tweeted his condolences to melissas family and turkeys president called him a brother who became president through democratic means funeral prayers it will be said in mosques across turkey for morsi this will happen on tuesday he also criticized egypts current president abdel fatah sisi saying that he set democracy aside by taking power in a coup and is responsible for executing thousands of egyptians. Well joining me now is as their senior political analyst Marwan Bashar and as we were just saying m r one the president of turkey seems as determined to highlight the death of Mohamed Morsi is the egyptians are to downplay it why is he being so vocal about this well for a place to Important Reasons one because he himself president there the one face the. By the military but fortunately for him he succeeded in overcoming that and you know went in and continued to be president the 2nd is that he has a Certain Affinity towards the arab spring in general and towards the islamists who faced the wrath of of armies or counterrevolution over. 20112015 so generally speaking present or do on who began a sort of experimentation with democracy in turkey where an islamists light party if you will does function within. A secular state of sort he thought that this is that this experiment could succeed in the arab world as well but of course as we all know whether it is in egypt or in syria and so on so forth contribution has been so severe against the democratic process in general and islamists in particular and i think the president there the one is of course quite in solidarity with those who suffered from the country revolution so jeana a strong reaction now from taki also some a fairly strong statements being issued by Human Rights Organizations how might morsi is death be viewed by countries and governments in the region in the middle east particularly the gulf monarchies i think his his death a slow death that took 6 years basically because now we talk about the can do. Sions surrounding his actual death today in fact he has gone through a torturous death over the last 6 years 3 could inhumanely mostly in isolation by a. Dictator. That is courts that has been quite sadistic the words an elected president that preceded the. So really while president s morsi is one year in office was sort of controversial at one point but certainly the way he was deposed another way he died would be a symbol. Into the history books as an important moment in egyptian history he does represent a certain bitter moment but also his death represents something thats gone on today as we speak tens of thousands of Political Prisoners continue to suffer in egyptian jails without much of an International Attention to thank you very much. Bashar. Here with aljazeera live from london we will be bringing you other stories on the program as well the United Nations threatens to suspend food aid to yemen accusing the whos the rebels of diverting supplies and at the Paris Air Show takes off but the trouble skies remain the u. S. Aircraft manufacturer boeing as it battles for its reputation after 2 fatal crashes in 5 months. 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True confessions might never be clean up for many but not all right cynical example of communist propaganda and i wanted to put it at the base here logical warfare i would i want to do it i would call in 2010 aljazeera access to north korea to investigate beyond ledged use of biological warfare by the u. S. During the korean war rewind revisits dirty Little Secrets on aljazeera. Welcome back our top story this hour mom and more see the 1st democratically elected president of egypt has died he collapsed while addressing a court in cairo way hes been jailed since being ousted by the military in 2013 Human Rights Watch says egypts government failed to give morsi adequate medical care even though his health was reportedly deteriorating while an os altikriti is the c. E. O. Of the foundation a think tank that examines the relationship between the west and the muslim world he joins us now via skype from ankara im so honestly speaking about Human Rights Watch there and im see international and other Human Rights Organization has called for an independent investigation into the death of Mohamed Morsi how likely is it that we will see a free and fair inquiry into this. Fairly unlikely i have to confess but its something that i think has to be made more than well most 2 years ago an independent committee of british parliamentarians they spoke to the British Government as well as addressing the Egyptian Government at the time wanting to visit but its cruel detainees and prisoners in egypts. Prison system including dr Mohammed Morsi and at that time they warned against the kind of treatment that he as well as hundreds probably even thousands of his fellow colleagues. Were subjected to including being deprived from essential medication visitation held in solitary confinement sleeping on slab concrete floors and so on and so forth. And that came to nothing simply because the egyptians refused to allow access for that particular committee now im hearing that the same committee has made that demand to actually send the group of medics who were independently verify the reasons why Mohamed Morsi died so its something that has to be done but like i said i have to confess not to hold my breath the regime in egypt is to tauriel its all authoritarian its has closed down and shut down all elements of freedom whatever we might think of and therefore i dont think theres anything will happen on on this particular level however what i think the death of Mohammed Morsi must do to the people of the world essentially is to assert the fact that we face a challenge as a Human Community and the challenge is whether we are serious about democracy whether were serious about human rights whether were serious about freedoms because if we are our governments at least on its really proving its. They watched by as a democracy a fledgling democracy was crushed. In egypt they watch by as human rights abuses were committed on a daily basis 2 or was it was some presidency and they watch biased freedoms were crammed down and the journalists were imprisoned and dissidents were were tortured and killed. The people of the will we in the west you know the free people who proclaim democracy and the such really need to take a stand and i hope that the president Mohammed Morsi will will signal some sort of ronnies so that particular. Thank you and us altikriti joining us there from ankara thank you were going to some other stories were covering this hour now iran is turning up the pressure of the unraveling of the 2050 nuclear deal saying it will break its uranium stockpile limit in the next 10 days under the queen at the start can a 6300 kilograms of low enriched uranium but iran announced last month that it would quadruple its production putting it on course to surpass the limit by june 27th the deal also stops the country from enriching its uranium beyond 3. 67 percent but the Iranian Atomic Agency now says it could boost purity to 20 percent which is just a step away from weapons grade levels to deal with world powers in 2015 was meant to stop Iran Acquiring Nuclear Weapons in return for lifting sanctions and breathing life and life into the economy thats been steadily stripped away since the u. S. Pulled out last may launching new sanctions and sending iran into economic freefall irans president has said ronnie says that time is running out to save the deal and its up to europe to provide some sort of solution to reports now from town. A theatrical build up for a final warning to the european signatories of the 2015 Nuclear Agreement the message delivered by the spokesman for irans Atomic Energy agency that time is running out and i. Will mortician my countdown has started in 10 days time on june 27th we will exceed the 300 kilogram limit of enrich uranium allowed under the nuclear deal off the dutch we will continue to increase the speed of production drastically. And theres a Nuclear Deal Iran is allowed to have 300 kilograms of 3. 67 percent in which you reign him at any given time inside the country anything in excess of that amount must be sold internationally but since the United States withdrew from the deal a may of last year it has also introduced restrictions on purchasing any material from Irans Nuclear program which means iran stockpile will continue to increase. Early last month president Hassan Rouhani announced tehran will stop exporting its excess uranium and heavy water for a 60 day period during which time it wants the remaining signatories of the deal to honor their obligations as they announce are not going to break the agreement there are going to go as far as possible to the threshold because when they break the agreement they will lose european support for now this is not the iranian strategy to completely go for a clear violation and break of the agreement a number of high ranking foreign officials have been visiting to iran in an

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