Rights groups called for an indepe­ndent probe into the detent­ion condit­ions and death of the former presid­entCAIRO: Egypt’s first democratically elected president Mohamed Mursi was buried in Cairo on Tuesday, his lawyer said, a day after he collapsed in court and died. Rights groups called for an independent probe into the detention conditions and death of the former president, who was ousted in 2013 after a year of divisive rule. “He was buried in Medinat Nasr, in eastern Cairo, with his family present,” said Abdel Moneim Abdel Maksoud, one of his lawyer. Egypt’s former president Mursi dies“We heard the banging on the glass cage from the rest of the other inmates and them screaming loudly that Mursi had died,” the lawyer, Osama El Helw, told AFP. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a strong ally of Mursi and the Muslim Brotherhood, paid tribute to the “martyr”.

Source: The Express Tribune June 18, 2019 06:22 UTC