CAIRO - Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Islamist leader Mohammed Morsi who was ousted by the military in 2013 after a year in office, collapsed in court while on trial Monday and died, state TV and his family said. In his final comments, he continued to insist he was Egypt’s legitimate president, demanding a special tribunal, one of his defence lawyers, Kamel Madour told the Associated Press. State TV said Morsi died before he could be taken to the hospital. State TV, citing an unnamed medical source, said he died after suffering a heart attack. The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s most powerful Islamist group, won the elections held after Mubarak’s fall, considered the first free votes the country had seen.

Source: thestar June 17, 2019 16:18 UTC