He had been in 2012 the first freely elected president of Egypt. Mohamed Morsi died on Monday, June 17 in Cairo. The former head of state, who has been in detention since 2013, was in court before collapsing and being taken to the hospital where he died, state television reports.
Born into the Islamist movement of the Muslim Brotherhood, he became supreme magistrate one year after the "Nile revolution" and the fall of his predecessor, Hosni Mubarak.
Mohamed Morsi had himself been overthrown by the army a year later, after major demonstrations against his power. The head of the army, Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, was later elected president.
The 67-year-old ex-president was serving a seven-year prison sentence for falsifying documents for his presidential candidacy in 2012.
According to state television, he suffered a malaise during a court hearing and his death was noticed shortly thereafter.
With AFP and Reuters