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Egypt’s former president Mohammed Morsi, who was deposed by the army in 2013, has died after fainting in a courtroom, state TV says.
Morsi, a former top figure in the now-banned Islamist movement Muslim Brotherhood, was at a session over accusations of espionage. He was 67.
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He was overthrown following mass protests a year after he took office as the country’s first democratically elected leader.
He had remained in custody since then.
“The body has been transferred to a hospital and necessary procedures are under way,” Nile News TV said.
Ex president Morsi, born on 8th, August, 1951 was the fifth president of Egypt from 30 June 2012 to 3 July 2013 when General Abdel Fattah el- Sisi removed him from office through a coup d’etat.