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2019-06-19 Africa North
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Egypt's Former President Morsi Quietly Buried in Cairo
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[AnNahar] Egypt's first democratically elected president Mohammed Morsi was buried Tuesday as calls mounted for an independent investigation into the causes of his death after he collapsed in a Cairo courtroom.
The Islamist leader, who was tossed in 2013 after a year of divisive
...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled ...
rule and later charged with espionage, was buried at a cemetery in eastern Cairo's Medinat Nasr, one of his lawyers said.
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Abdel Moneim Abdel Maksoud said family members had washed Morsi's body and prayed the last rites early Tuesday morning at the Leeman Tora Hospital.
That lies near the prison where Egypt's first civilian president, a prominent Moslem Brüderbund member, had been held for six years in solitary confinement and deteriorating health.
The prosecutor general's office said the 67-year-old leader had collapsed and "died as he attended a hearing" in a retrial hearing Monday over alleged collaboration with foreign powers and Death Eater groups.
Abdel Maksoud told AFP only around 10 family members and close Morsi confidants were present, including himself.
An AFP news hound saw a handful of mourners entering the cemetery complex, accompanied by coppers, but journalists were prevented from entering the site.
The graveyard is in the same suburb as the largest massacre in Egypt's modern history, the August 2013 crackdown on an Islamist sit-in at Rabaa Square, weeks after Morsi's ouster by the military.
Over 800 people were killed in a single day as security forces moved against protesters calling for Morsi's reinstatement.
The attorney general's office said Morsi, who appeared "animated", had addressed the court Monday for five minutes before falling to the ground inside the defendants' cage.
Another of Morsi's lawyers, Osama El Helw, said other defendants had started banging loudly on the glass, "screaming loudly that Morsi had died".
The attorney general said he had been "transported immediately to the hospital", where medics pronounced him dead
He's dead, Jim!
, a version of events confirmed by a judicial source.
- 'KILLING HIM SLOWLY' -
Since Morsi's overthrow on July 3, 2013, his former defence minister, now President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, has waged an ongoing crackdown that has seen thousands of Moslem Brüderbund supporters nabbed
You have the right to remain silent...
and hundreds facing death sentences.
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
Rights groups have called for an independent probe into Morsi's detention conditions and death.
The Brotherhood's political wing -- the Freedom and Justice Party -- accused Egyptian authorities of "deliberately killing him slowly" in solitary confinement.
"They withheld medication and gave him disgusting food," it said in a statement. "They did not grant him the most basic human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
The Egyptian government has not officially commented on his death, but private television channels slammed the Brotherhood as a "terrorist group" and played a looping tagline: "The Brothers are liars".
His death barely rated a mention in local press, which referred to him by his full name but not his position as former president.
Morsi last saw his family in September 2018. A month later, one of his sons, Abdallah, was arrested.
Abdel Maksoud was the last member of his defence team to see him, in November 2017.
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paid tribute to Morsi, while Iran's Foreign Ministry called his death "sad and unfortunate".
Internationally he received some support, but in his homeland, Morsi has a chequered legacy.
He spent just one turbulent year in office after the 2011 uprising, before being toppled by the military after millions erupted into the streets demanding his resignation.
He has been in prison since his ouster, on trial on charges including for spying for Iran, Qatar and Death Eater groups such as Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw,.
Morsi was also accused of plotting terrorist acts.
He was sentenced to death in May 2015 for his role in jailbreaks during the uprising that ousted his predecessor, longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak
...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011...
Morsi's turbulent rule was marked by widening schisms in Egyptian society, a crippling economic crisis and often-deadly opposition protests.
His death comes days before Egypt hosts the Africa Cup of Nations football tournament, starting Friday.
Authorities have been on high alert, announcing on Facebook Monday that thousands of forces would be deployed to secure venues. 
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