They denounce that the former Egyptian president was the victim of a "slow assassination"

Organizations like Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International asked for an impartial investigation on Monday Death of former President Mohamed Mursi, deceased after fainting during a hearing. This 67-year-old politician became the first elected president of the country in 2012, after winning the elections held after the fall of Hosni Mubarak a year ago and was overthrown in 2013 by a coup of the military state.

HRW expressed regret for a new "terrible" but "totally predictable" of the "government's refusal to allow adequate medical treatment", in the words of the Middle East Organization Manager, Sarah Leah Whitson. Whitson denounced the fact that the government "did not allow him to receive adequate medical care, as did visits by family members".

Whitson also recalled the brutal repression unleashed by security forces after the coup d'etat of July 3, 2013 which ended the mandate of Mursi and in particular the expulsions of protest camps that resulted in "the killing of more than a thousand people in broad daylight". His organization had already warned in 2017 about the conditions of Mursi's imprisonment "could have contributed to the deterioration of his health". In June of this year, she fainted twice and suffered from a diabetic coma, according to her family.

For its part, Amnesty International called on the authorities to conduct an "impartial, thorough and transparent" investigation into the circumstances of Mursi's death and recalled that he was in solitary confinement. In particular, he asks to investigate the medical treatment received by Mursi and possible abusers.. For its part, the Freedom and Justice Party, the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood, has also accused the Egyptian authorities of "slow murder", denouncing the "bad conditions" of the detention of Mursi.

After leaving his post, he was arrested and tried for numerous cases – including one where he was sentenced to death – which he rejected and described as a political campaign against him. At the time of his death, Mursi had at least six cases pending and had been in prison for nearly six years for cases such as the one that involved him in the deaths of protesters during opposition protests. in the so-called Arab Spring. In addition, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for espionage related to Qatar and alleged terrorist acts.

Detained in 2013, he was only allowed to make three family visits during his detention period.. During his trials, Mohammed Mursi appeared on the accused's bench behind armored glbad that isolated the sound to avoid his answers, which did not prevent him from presenting himself with an air sometimes forced to martialism, as the president victim of a "military coup.

According to security and judicial sources, Mursi collapsed after speaking on Monday in court and was transferred to a hospital where he died. Before collapsing behind the armored glbad of the room where there were other defendants, Morsi had claimed that he kept "a lot of secrets" that he had not revealed until now not to endanger national security.

The public television channel said the death was caused by cardiac arrest: "The court has agreed to speak for five minutes. He fell to the accused's bench and was promptly taken to the hospital. ", where he died, according to a statement from the prosecution. "He arrived at the hospital at exactly 4:50 pm and he had no visible injuries on his body," added the prosecution.

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