Morsi’s death was a political assassination by a vindictive regime

Mohamed Morsi will forever be remembered as Egypt’s first democratically-elected President, something that his enemies can never take away from him…..

…. Morsi died as a direct result of the inhumane treatment meted out to him by a brutal, vindictive regime headed by his own former Defence Minister, General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, who led the 2013 military coup against his former boss. That is why Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was prompted to describe Morsi as a “martyr”. He went on to blame Egypt’s “tyrants” for the 67-year-old’s demise, but there are a few other guilty parties who also had a hand in Morsi’s death.

Any number of Middle East rulers, tyrants and despots — men whose hatred of democracy fuelled their fear of the Muslim Brotherhood — could have reined-in Al-Sisi over his treatment of Morsi. However, it suited their own selfish purposes to have him isolated, abused and locked up. Israel also breathed a sigh of relief when the coup succeeded, as President Morsi had reached out to become a friend of the Palestinians, something untenable as far as Tel Aviv was concerned.

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Kairo – Der frühere ägyptische Präsident Mohammed Morsi ist tot. Wie das ägyptische Staatsfernsehen am Montagabend berichtete, ist der 67-Jährige bei einer Gerichtsverhandlung in einem Fall angeblicher Spionage in Ohnmacht gefallen und anschließend verstorben. Morsi, gegen den die neue Regierung von Präsident Abdelfattah al-Sisi und Ägyptens Justiz zahlreiche Verfahren angestrengt hatten, war von 2012 bis 2013 der erste frei gewählte Präsident in Ägyptens moderner Geschichte gewesen. - bericht im Standard