1st democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi has died after collapsing in court while on trial on espionage charges in the past half hour Egyptian State t. V. Said hed suffered a heart attack the 67 year old Muslim Brotherhood leader had been imprisoned since 2013 when he was 1st toppled after less than a year in office and a statement the Muslim Brotherhood said had held current president abdel fatah sisi and his government responsible for what they call the planned criminal killing of morsi his son says he gyptian authorities have refused permission for morsy to be buried at the family plot so human rights activists there are saying that morsi is medical condition was ignored by egyptian authorities and the harsh conditions in solitary confinement could have led to a premature death good to 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 2900. 00 mostly appeared in court for trial on charges of espionage he asked the judge if he could speak to 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 then collapsed and died in a defendants cage tofail Mohamed MorsiMohamed Morsi died today while attending a session in his trial on espionage charges during the session he was granted permission to address the judge after the session was adjourned the former president blacked out and then died his body was taken to a hospital. Egypts prosecutors say they have ceased surveillance cameras in the courtroom and ordered a forensic examination preliminary reports apparently suggest no signs of external injuries but there are allegations that egyptian authorities have ignored multiple warnings by human Rights Groups and experts or voices untimely death because of inhumane prison conditions he was singled out for mistreatments. In the 1st 4 years of his detention you had exactly 2 family visits he was held in solitary confinement for nearly the entire time mention he never received the medical care that he asked or 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 premature. 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 so that if they have looked off to him properly since our report then it would be in egypt own interests to establish that the here are the more they are thats a lot of area. And the man who sits at the top of the chain of command is egypts current leader president of the fatah and sisi the former army chief ousted morsy in a military coup in 2030 and since then has locked up thousands of people a splitting of prisoners and this is the outcome that the Egyptian Government kinds wanted for years for morsi and also for other brotherhood leaders like mommy. They dont want necessarily to execute people because of the fallout and the execution would create what they want. Then a cold sweat International Investigation into morsi staff in court while his life in prison seemed entirely new and by the want to keep the disease. Our challenge looks back 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. Consolidate his power by giving himself or thorazine 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 democracy 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 town roots or Rebel Campaign a movement which was born a few months prior almost later reveal 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 Armed 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 of north improved to the end he was defiant rejecting the Courts Authority and insisting he was the legitimate president of egypt elected by the people. William laurance is a professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington university and joins us live from washington d. C. We appreciate your time so much so Mohamed Morsy obviously a former head of state a former president how would you characterize what the International Reaction has and to his death well so far the press coverage in the United States and elsewhere has lamented primarily the Egyptian Governments treatment of him particularly of his medical conditions as you know he had chronic diet diabetes and he had Liver Disease and also high Blood Pressure and Kidney Disease and under un guidelines 23 hours of solitary confinement per day is considered torture particularly for long periods he was also denied family visits which under a gyptian customs for prisoners would have included food and medical support he was cut off from the press so most of the coverage has been about the lamentable treatment about which many human rights organizations and the British Parliamentary Group had warned could lead to his death so you know those things that you just listed obviously it would anger supporters if it is you would think there are an outlet is there a way for them to express that how is this going to play out in egypt. Well i think it will be somewhat muted obviously the Egyptian Governments on the highest state of alert the Muslim Brotherhood has called for protests and egyptian embassies around the world although i would not expect a big turnout certainly if there was a proper funeral for morsi i would expect a rather large turnout but thats exactly what the egyptian authorities seem to be stopping from happening and theres some talk of quiet nighttime burial not in accordance with his familys wishes so the Egyptian Government will do everything it can to suppress the popular reaction and i think the Muslim Brotherhood to general trajectory you know in recent months and years has been not to foment a lot of instability which just leads to further repression and i think if theres anything that the Egyptian Government will pay the price will come later and not at the present time what type of message is trying to send their way that it seems that morsi is going to be traded and. I think theyre treating him as a terrorist to gyptian television today has been talking about the Muslim Brotherhood in showing pictures of the Islamic State fighters which really arent connected to the Muslim Brotherhood in any important way and so theyre going to continue to paint him in the most negative light possible while trying to suppress the reaction if i if you let me add something i think morsi. Did have a couple of flaws in this presidency and one of them was to take a kind of a majority here in approaching to be defiant there was a concerted effort in 2013 to help him broker a deal which would have possibly kept him in power and he chose to be defiant and so in many ways he chose his fate in terms of not being able to continue his presidency but no politician and no prisoner deserves the treatment that he had in prison which was lamentable and is continuing to be the case for tens of thousands of other egyptian prisoners so what do you think his considering those missteps and it you just outlined what would you say his legacy is. Well be mixed obviously he was very controversial domestically he was quite effective internationally notwithstanding the charges the Egyptian Government is made for espionage and all that which are trumped up charges but the way he handled riyadh and to iran the way he handled negotiations with the palestinians the way he. Was was a steady hand i think in International Affairs was appreciated by most governments domestically obviously he was much more controversial he was somewhat in his ruling style he was sort of against proper judicial and legislative function at certain times and had to reverse his own positions and so. Again his approach was not like we saw in tunisia a consensus approach which ended up giving them the nobel prize he had a majority area and just barely won his election for the presidency and that majority terry impro church said sort of 50 percent plus one is the way to rule the country and it up being to some degree his downfall not deserving of death and of course the death is in the hands of the Egyptian Government which you can accuse of what Human Rights Watch called criminal negligence and purposeful mistreatment of him and so part of the reason for his death is on the hands of presidency. And that part of this passing as well leon lawrence thank you so much for your insight we appreciate it. A sector general of the Muslim Brotherhood has told al jazeera that if your Security Forces will bury morsi in cairo late at night denying him a proper funeral theres a little on the video my own 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 morsi stood with them in the war theres no doubt that history will remember it as a day most he was martyred after he was killed by the military coup. In turkey will hold funeral paris for Mohammed Morsi on tuesday president has paid 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 it afterwards morsi who was put on trial by the court step 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. The mere katara shape to maim and harm at all funny has tweeted we have received with deep sadness the news about the former president dr Mohamed Morsi i said my sincere condolences to his family and to the gyptian people out of her small shell has covered egypt extensively he says morsi stepped will try the spotlight on Political Prisoners in egypt. The question is whether this will be a watershed moment for the movement thats had lobbied around the demand for his return egypts 1st democratically elected president to resign whether they will now find a new cause celebre to rally around whether they can create from howard morsi a legacy as the person who personified the free will of the egyptian people through those one and only democratic elections to take place in egypts history and then build upon that that is something that a lot of people will be asking but whats significant to note here and this is something that a lot of journalists will be looking into is that there are other significant figures currently in jail who are also facing similar issues so you have for example of the doctor was a former president ial candidate himself whose family just a couple of weeks ago issued a statement saying that his health severely his life is also under threat because of the severe deterioration because of the intentional lack of treatment hes receiving there are several others weve had many deaths from from the ark of the former general of the Muslim Brotherhood also who died in jail so this is also indicative of the fact that there are 40000 of not more Political Prisoners in egypt in the conditions they are being held and is what allows for them to die or essentially what leads to them to be killed as many of their supporters and human rights organizations have been describing that eric has maintained close relations with current egyptian president at del fertile city despite widespread allegations of rights abuses against an ministration or correspondent has more from paris on egypts links with iran. Of the beginning of the arab spring into 1011 all the way to 2012 when. It became president france along with European Countries one of the view that it would be much better to include religiously conservative groups like. The Muslim Brotherhood in egypt and another in tunisia and build inclusive political processes in the middle east and in north africa but i think when they saw the situation further deteriorate in libya in yemen and in syria and when are the fatah has sisi took over in a military coup in its of the decided to shift their support for of the fatah has he said for Different Reasons france in particular became the biggest supplier of weapons to the Egyptian Government selling fighter jets weapons warships to egypt saying that this could help the Egyptian Government prevent the rise of armed groups which were taken advantage of the volatile situation of that expanding to libya in yemen and syria and also your boss or Northern Africa and this by the accusations by human rights agencies as you were wise activists of the clampdown on or on the Muslim Brotherhood and her mother on mostly and his aides on activists in. Egypt. French government is saying basically that its position is just to find the man with my quote was quoted as saying that france decided to take a program attic this is the term he is a pragmatic stance when it comes to providing significant military assistance to the Egyptian Government and i think from that moment on they decided. To turn the chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood and this is that most likely were not going to see to see any strong reaction coming from from the french government about the death of the former president Mohammed Morsi. The gyptian revolutionary council which is a Group Opposed to the current government said in the statement president morsi chose to sacrifice his freedom and ultimately his life and defense of the democratic rights of the egyptian people to control their own destiny by standing up to a military coup and refusing to step down to bestow legitimacy on a military coup the r. C. Calls on all human rights organizations and all western governments to pressure the military regime in egypt to accept an independent 3rd Party Investigation into has death which we maintain was a result of a premeditated policy by the military regime and ever 2017 Mohamed Morsi spoke about the conditions of his imprisonment he said he had no access to his