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Egyptian ex-president Mohamed Morsi died following a courtroom collapse Monday, state media reported.
Morsi was 67. He has been in custody since his ousting as president in 2013 during a crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood, which he represented, reported BBC.
Morsi was being tried on espionage charges when he passed out and was taken to a hospital, reported TIME.
His presidential term was short-lived after he was elected in the country’s first free elections in 2012 after the expulsion of former President Hosni Mubarak.
Morsi used his first speech at the United Nations to demand curbs on Western free speech rights and “an end to all forms of occupation of Arab lands” in September 2012.
President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi has led Egypt since 2014.
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