{"id":637860,"date":"2019-06-17T18:05:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T18:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t\n<p><strong>Mohammed Morsi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Egypt\u2019s former President Mohammed Morsi, who was ousted by the army in 2013, has died after fainting in a courtroom, state TV says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A former top figure in the now-banned Islamist movement"},"modified":"2019-06-17T18:05:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T18:05:43","slug":"egypts-ousted-president-mohammed-morsi-dies-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/06\/17\/egypts-ousted-president-mohammed-morsi-dies-in-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt&#8217;s Ousted President Mohammed Morsi Dies In Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Mohammed Morsi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Egypt\u2019s former President Mohammed Morsi, who was ousted by the army in 2013, has died after fainting in a courtroom, state TV says.<\/p>\n<p>A former top figure in the now-banned Islamist movement Muslim Brotherhood, Morsi was in court for a hearing on charges of espionage. He was 67.<\/p>\n<p>Morsi was overthrown following mass protests a year after he took office as the country\u2019s first democratically elected leader.<\/p>\n<p>He had remained in custody since then.<\/p>\n<p>After his removal from power, Egyptian authorities launched a crackdown on his supporters and the Muslim Brotherhood.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing in the capital, Cairo, was related to charges of espionage emanating from suspected contacts with the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, according to state television.<\/p>\n<h2>Who was Morsi?<\/h2>\n<p>Morsi was born in the village of El-Adwah in the Nile Delta province of Sharqiya in 1951. He studied Engineering at Cairo University in the 1970s before moving to the US to complete a PhD.<\/p>\n<p>He was chosen as the Muslim Brotherhood\u2019s presidential candidate for the 2012 election after the movement\u2019s preferred choice was forced to pull out. After a narrow victory, he promised to head a government \u201cfor all Egyptians\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>But critics complained he had failed to deliver during his turbulent year in office. They accused him of allowing Islamists to monopolise the political scene and mishandling the economy.<\/p>\n<p>Public opposition to his government grew and millions of anti-government protesters took to the streets across Egypt to mark the first anniversary of the day he took office, on 30 June 2013.<\/p>\n<p>On the evening of 3 July, the army suspended the constitution and announced the formation of a technocratic interim government ahead of new presidential elections. Morsi, who denounced the announcement as a coup, was taken into custody by the army.<\/p>\n<p><strong>-BBC<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mohammed Morsi Egypt\u2019s former President Mohammed Morsi, who was ousted by the army in 2013, has died after fainting in a courtroom, state TV says. A former top figure in the now-banned Islamist movement Muslim Brotherhood, Morsi was in court for a hearing on charges of espionage. He was 67. Morsi was overthrown following mass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":637862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Egypt&#039;s Ousted President Mohammed Morsi Dies In Court - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/06\/17\/egypts-ousted-president-mohammed-morsi-dies-in-court\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Egypt&#039;s Ousted President Mohammed Morsi Dies In Court - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Mohammed Morsi Egypt\u2019s former President Mohammed Morsi, who was ousted by the army in 2013, has died after fainting in a courtroom, state TV says. 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