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egypt's 1st democratically elected president mohamed morsi during a court hearing state t.v. says he had a heart attack human rights groups and the muslim brotherhood to blame egypt's government for more. color i missed audio tape in this is al-jazeera live from doha also coming up the u.s. releases new images it says implicates iran into oil tanker explosions and it's now sending more troops to the middle east and. fleeing persecution the ethnic minorities struggling to find sanctuary outside
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china. egypt's 1st democratically elected president has died after collapsing in court while on trial on espionage charges gyptian state t.v. says mohamed morsi had a heart attack he'd been in prison since 2013 when he was toppled after less than a year in government in a statement the muslim brotherhood says it holds president. and his government responsible for what it calls the planned criminal killing of warsi his son says egyptian authorities refused permission for morsy to be buried at the family plot where human rights activists say more medical condition was ignored by egyptian authorities and harsh conditions and solitary confinement could have led to a premature death priyanka gupta explains. a death that human rights activists have called tragic but predictable and what former egyptian president mohamed morsy
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supporters say is a model 17 june $29000.00 morsi appeared in court for a trial on charges of espionage he asked a judge if you could speak to him the session in what is now his final address morsi demanded a special tribunal and better trial conditions the public prosecutors say the 67 year old man collapsed and died in a defendant's cage. unless all of us a little help them know how medical source has revealed the details of the medical condition of mohamed morsi who died monday afternoon due to a surprise heart attack during a court session for the espionage case the source added that morsi had continued to receive medical care and that there was no neglect to his medical condition in and out of prison. but human rights groups say egyptian authorities ignored multiple warnings about morsi untimely death because of inhumane prison conditions that he
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was singled out for mistreatment. in the 1st 4 years of his detention you had exactly 2 family visits he was held in solitary confinement for nearly the entire time it was tension he never received the medical care that he asked for he was not allowed to have the food and medicine provided by his family that virtually all other prisoners in egypt are able to access last year a panel of british politicians and lawyers said treatment in prison was so bad that it could amount to torture. a project that if you didn't get the appropriate medical treatment he may very well have a premature death and of course rise out of us water torture is a crime of universal jurisdiction and we found that the responsibility for that would sit all the way up the egyptian chain of. i'm on the highway all the more they are worth a lot of air and the man who sits at the top of the chain of command is egypt's
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current leader preston uphill for the c.c. the former army chief ousted morsi in a military coup in 2013 and since then has locked up thousands of people as political prisoners this is the outcome that the egyptian government guys wanted for years or more see and also for other brotherhood leaders like. they don't want necessarily to execute people because of. the execution it would create but they want. there now calls for an international investigation into morsi steffen court while his life in prison seemed entirely north by the world priyanka gupta. chalons looks at the rise and forward of mohamed morsi. mohamed morsi sailed into the presidency of egypt on the winds of a people's revolution demanding change in 2012 he became egypt's 1st ever
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democratically elected president the 1st civilian to hold the office morsi was born in 1951 he spent his adult life 1st as an engineering professor then as a member of parliament and a political prisoner the egyptian revolution in 2011 set the stage for morsi to reach the pinnacle of power from the start his critics accused him of placing his allegiance with the muslim brotherhood and not the country morsi made a point of repeatedly promising to be a president for all egyptians his opponents however claim he tried to consolidate his power by giving himself or thorazine above the judiciary and dominating the governments with muslim brotherhood members. morsi said his actions were to combat counter revolutionary forces led by the so-called deep state that wanted to kill egypt. and democracy those forces included members of the military as well as regional powers namely the u.a.e.
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and saudi arabia who were vehemently opposed to the arab spring in june 2030 in scenes reminiscent of the revolution huge crowds of egyptians filled square calling for their president to step down it was a culmination of the rebel campaign a movement which was born a few months prior and was later revealed to have been supported by abu dhabi morsi supporters took to the streets to which emboldened him and he refused to step down instead he made an offer of national reconciliation including forming a new government of technocrats that offer was rejected by the army which days later deposed him ending egypt's historic but brief experiment with democracy stripped of the title of president morsi swiftly became a political prisoner once again he was ultimately tried and sentenced to death for allegedly working with foreign armed groups and crossing a mass jailbreak when guards or killed. numerous human rights groups as well as
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british parliamentarians and his family complained of intentional medical neglect and warns that morsi is imprisonment conditions would lead to his death if not improved to the end morsi was defiant rejecting the court's authority and insisting he was the legitimate president of egypt elected by the people. now the secretary general of the muslim brotherhood has told al-jazeera that he fears security forces will bury morsi in cairo late at night denying him a proper funeral. on the real me on has in place of this is a sad day not only for the muslim brothers but also for the egyptian people and for his family and for arabs and muslims and especially for the palestinian people who witnessed how morsy stood with them in the war there's no doubt that history will remember it as a day morsi was martyred after he was killed by the military coup. and lawyers say morsi has now been buried. as minister of planning and international cooperation
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during the last 3 months of his presidency he says his death is a criminal act. the 1st reaction is that we are. facing a complete. action of murder this is a necessary nation crime that must be dealt this way and. a lot of people over the world have been warning against this for a long time we have members of the british parliament headed by sir tristram blunt . who tried to have a committee visit to mostly to examine his health conditions after reports of his deteriorating health sure that the team will never allow a proper funeral for dr morsi i'm sure they will not allow any any kind of gathering for the people or an event like that they will never allow him to be buried properly in his his home village which will be definitely out of the control
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. my expectation is that they were they will try to bury quietly in that he won't area where only his family will be present maybe they they won't even allow it 70 m. in this is. they can do anything but i don't think they will let they will allow any occasion where a lot of people could be gathering for a funeral and a major event like that mosques in turkey will hold funeral prayers for mohammed morsi on tuesday president bush said time that one has paid his own personal tribute. in our eyes mohammed morsi is a martyr who lost his life while he fought for the cause he believed history will never forget the tyrants who put him in prison threaten them with the death penalty and caused his martyrdom we formed a close friendship with him before he was a link to this president and preserved it afterwards morsi who was put on trial by a court established by the code administration and simplest him to death davis' last breath in a courtroom and this is
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a symbol of the cruelty inflicted upon him and his people for years and the emir of qatar shaikh to men been a model tawny has tweeted we've received with deep sadness the news about the sudden death of former president dr mohamed morsi i send my sincere condolences to his family and to the egyptian people are protesters in new york have demonstrated to show their anger at morsi is death people also demonstrated in turkey's largest city istanbul they followed calls from the muslim brotherhood of gyptian is living abroad to march in front of embassies to condemn his death meanwhile in the capital of mauritania police have struck at demonstrators with battens as they look to break up what had been a peaceful protest. in november 27100 morsi spoke about the conditions of his imprisonment he said he had no access to his lawyers or medical treatment the since the 20th of september i've been in prison and i've been isolated there
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glassman is in front of me i tried to speak to the court about different problems but the court decided not to hear or see me after so many days when they turned on the lights it was very painful i can see the court accept them shadows sometimes i hear the witnesses and sometimes i don't but i am speaking very clearly i've got a lot to say to the court haven't seen a doctor and i haven't seen my lawyers have a right to be seen and to be present i am in a very very bad situation if you treat me in this way i am having morsi i am extremely worried about egypt well human rights watch says the egyptians government failure to provide morsi with adequate medical care led to his death. we believe. that. president morsi isolation and treatment might actually amount to torture according to the un convention against torture and according to the basic principles of keeping inmates. different government completely ignored disregarded
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i think she says government have shown her. content for the basic human need i think this. president's morsi should actually. bring attention to the state of thousands of prisoners in egypt prisons some of which are even not convicted just sent to prisons on this kind of pretrial detention unable to see judges unable to see their families. and we documented before a human rights watch of the of many inmates because of the bad detention conditions because because of the lack of sufficient medical care i think this is this should serve as a wake up call for egypt's international allies to actually raise the alarm about the state of human rights in egypt and britain conditions still ahead on al-jazeera
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health wacko's and uganda began a vaccination campaign and people who may have been exposed to the fires and more restrictions on venezuelan than colombians trying to cross the border and the height of a better life. to west sponsored by cattle and ways. hello there we've been watching some rather hefty downpours a repulsive tikki recently for a look at the satellite picture we can see these bright white little areas of cloud those are the heavy showers and they gradually pushing their way northwards they'll still be with us as we head through the day on tuesday so still some heavy thunder downpours around at least that would take the edge of the temperatures in the debate because it's pretty hot across this region now we're looking at a top temperature in aleppo of around 30 degrees and baghdad a rather hot to $43.00 even further east it's pretty hot forcing kabul with a top temperature of around 30 or 31 degrees as we head through the next couple of
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days but if you think that's hot head a bit further south to doha it certainly is very very hot at the moment but it's a dry heat something of a relief so our temperatures topping at around 46 degrees on choose day as we head into wednesday may be just a fraction less 45 for the day was the south is a bit more cloud over the coast of oman at the moment so that's just taking the edge of the temperatures a little bit that muscat will still make it up to around $35.00 that are down towards the southern parts of africa there is a bit of cloud here most of that ice skating around the coast so forth in mozambique they could be one or 2 showers here and there could be the shower around the coast of madagascar as well but away from there is looking to launch any fine and draw in fairly warm cape town. degrees. sponsored by the ways. this is a dialogue reading about it for not interesting it on international media and on t.v. why should we stop this conversation with skepticism because there's
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a lot of it on mine everyone has a voice we are being taken advantage of just because we are small community without a leader to work just to to help join the global conversation on out to 0 all they want to do is start to think the same kind of debate that we have here in st. hello again i'm. reminded of the news this hour egypt's 1st democratically elected president mohamed morsi has collapsed and died while appearing in court egyptian state t.v. says the 67 year old how the heart attack the muslim brotherhood says in a statement that it holds current president. and his government responsible for
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what they call the planned criminal killing of morsi his lawyer says his body has now been buried in cairo morsi son says egyptian authorities refused permission for him to be buried at the family plot. the united states is sending about $1000.00 more troops to the middle east the announcement comes just hours after the u.s. military released new pictures that it says shows the iranian military removing an unexploded mine from a japanese aren't vessel it was one of 2 oil tankers hit by explosions last week. has more. the u.s. military says these newly released photos taken from a navy helicopter show members of iran's revolutionary guard removing an unexploded mine from the side of a japanese oil tanker there'd been an earlier explosion on that tanker and another ship last week in the gulf of oman iran denies involvement but on monday night the
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pentagon announced it was sending approximately $1000.00 additional troops to the middle east by and large when you look at the overall side of u.s. military forces are small measure it's designed to send a message but it's also designed to notch this is nowhere near what you need for an invasion or a war in a statement u.s. acting secretary of defense patrick shanahan said the united states does not see a conflict with iran the action today is being taken to ensure the safety and welfare of our military personnel working throughout the region and to protect our national interests the u.s. relationship with iran has deteriorated rapidly since president trump withdrew from the 2015 nuclear treaty citing iran's engagement in this whole development and supporting proxy armies since that the us has imposed and ever tightening noosed of economic sanctions on iran washington calls it
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a campaign of maximum pressure but even leaders have been promoting another term maximum restraint you have seen that already in the last days we've called for the maximum restraint i think back to a particular wisdom have been the words of secretary general of the united nations but that is when he says that the world cannot afford another crisis especially in an area like that iran's decision to increase your radio production has led some in the u.s. to hughes tehran of nuclear blackmail washington flexing its military might only add to the tension and the fear of confrontation heidi jocasta. washington well iran's military has denied involvement in the explosions on oil tankers in the gulf of oman last week and its chief of staff says if it decided to block the strait of hormuz it could do serve the straits a vital gateway for the global oil industry and tensions been rising there over a series of attacks on a tank as in the region. as long as no one causes problems for the security of the
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straits of hormuz we will preserve its security and as long as the islamic republic is exported the others will be securely. tied if we decide to block the streets of hormuz will do it in a way that even a drop of oil past the street. saudi state media says to have drones have been intercepted by air defenses one of them was reportedly targeting a residential area in saudi arabia's city earlier yemen's really rebels said they had targeted the airport with drones for the 5th time since last wednesday the who these have warned they'll continue attacking saudi airports and retaliation for the kingdom's actions inside yemen now suicide bombers have targeted a crowd watching a football match on television in northeastern nigeria killing at least 30 people 2 bombers detonated devices in the village of qana dugar and officials say at least
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40 other people were injured and taken to nearby hospitals there's been no claim of responsibility sudan's protest leaders are calling for more rallies as a tense standoff continues with a military judge into they want to investigation into the violent dispersal of their sit in demonstration in khartoum earlier this month more than $120.00 people were killed in that crackdown the european union has blamed the military for the violence. well ugandan health officials have started distributing that summations to nearly 100 people who may have been exposed to a bowler the outbreak started in the democratic republic of congo last year and is one of the worst in history and spread to uganda earlier this month. has more from entebbe. anyone who may have come in contact with it as of 2 people who died of a boiler is be encouraged to get vaccinated it is retired had attended a funeral in democratic republic of congo. health workers hope to see boiler
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vaccine health put in more deaths in western uganda a public mistrust of health workers in congo has seen more communities here accused medical teams are spreading the disease that's why some people say they don't want to seek help from those. here for them they were thinking as. something. you know they are. witches. and they could hide for mission that's what i hear the head of the world health organization says efforts to contain the outbreak in democratic republic of congo have been hampered by militia attacks on treatment centers and hostility towards the medical teams so i think the political and security environment is very important otherwise we could have finished it it wouldn't have to contain ones. because in western reality there was outbreak from last year made up to august but it was controlled in 3 months because it was relatively stable. medical scientists are developing more vaccines but the
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challenge for many here is that a lot more of the research is done abroad welcome with a lot of international partners from the north to do our research and we are shipping them in fact many african countries now are reducing on shipment specimens all the water will be done locally but it will not silence the world slowly but we are moving their identification. doctors and nurses in uganda are experienced in dealing with people or patients to help contain outbreaks in west africa between 13 and 26th in uganda is worst of all our brain was 19 years ago and we need 500 people were infected and nearly hard have died since in health experts say the country has. realty was prepared in containing the virus and usually confirmed outbreaks much faster than many other things. the world health organization says congress ebola outbreak you steer is it decided not to declare internationally
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merton's for now but engine should measures are needed to stop its beauty. and to be uganda now police in hong kong have changed their position on mass protests against a controversial extradition bill no longer referring to them broadly as riots sarah clarke has the latest from hong kong. purchases have had a win over night to the police commissioner here in hong kong last night at a press conference declared wins days gathering not as a riot as previously mentioned instead he said a minority of those protesting will be charged with riot related offenses now this simply categorizing it as a riot meant heftier penalties for those protesters instead he says. people on the front line the protesters on the front line who held the metal barricades and the metal rods who were confronting police that were the ones who will now be charged $32.00 protesters were arrested 5 for writing related charges and 10 for violent crimes now this is a win for those protesters because they had tricky demands number one they wanted
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the extradition bill withdrawn altogether they want to carry it to be to stand a number 3 they didn't want wednesday's gathering to be categorized as i write simply because it incurred those heavier penalties now as for hong kong's chief executive kerry lamb we haven't seen her publicly since saturday on saturday she held that press conference where she announced the suspension of the bill on sunday she issued a statement study i public apology but we've seen no public gathering also certainly not public speaking from kerry since saturday last night around 1000 protesters marched to her office which is around on my right hand side today she's meant to be holding a media briefing it's a regular tuesday event here in hong kong where yet to determine if she'll hold that press conference and make the media once again but here. in hong kong where the council building all those council meetings have been cancelled today as have all the executive council meetings to start the next step will be whether or not kerry lamb fronts the media. or china's been accused of holding more than
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a 1000000 muslims and creating ethnic. and so-called re-education camps and province rights groups in kazakhstan have been trying to help locate and reunite individuals with family members that as robyn forrester walker reports from almaty has a call thora teens have been reluctant to help them. here in the kazakh city of. muslims from different communities worship freely together they feel safe from china's so-called reeducation camps across the border probably . more than a 1000000 muslims mostly week is but also the ethnic minorities are reportedly being held there in mass detention camps near the border with the central asian republics china says the allegations of this information. ethnic. told al-jazeera she was separated from her daughter and held for nearly 2 years.
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there are a lot of kazakhs. whose backs everyone gets jailed except for the chinese and from the. doctor they hit us on the head with electric batons our body shake if we spend more than 2 minutes on the toilet they hit us i was shackles and was beaten for 15 straight months. china's government has released some ethnic kazakhs but those with chinese passports have no guarantee of asylum in kazakstan compared to china because it is relative haven for religious freedom but when it comes to human rights abuses in xinjiang the cousin called thirty's have tended to remain silent how could a lack belief. has been lately that police have put pressure on minority rights groups who document and assist ethnic kazakhs escaping xinjiang. in march
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because a police raided the offices of a to george a human rights in geo and arrested its direct acidic jaane bhi lash he's accused of calling for war against china and its policies. many catholics worry about xinjiang and chinese influence in the region protests in 2016 against laws that would have allowed chinese to purchase farmland with the largest years. and you might be china is closely watching what is happening in kazakhstan and is concerned about increasing anti chinese moods because like nationalism could become more radical that's why because i can and chinese authorities are cooperating on this. and as long as this cooperation last xinjiang is ethnic minorities be not get the protection here that they need firstly walker al-jazeera mattie. well venezuelan president nicolas maduro is imposing tougher rules for anyone who wants to enter venezuela through colombia thousands have been
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crossing the border to buy food and medicine caracas reopened the border with colombia on june 7th 4 months after it was closed the president accused the us of delivering aid to undermine venezuela's sovereignty and that's under m.p.'s he has this update from the colombian city of kuta on the border with venezuela. when the simone believer bridge the main entry point into columbia from venezuela this bridge has been reopened since june 8th after being blocked by them in this one and all tory fees for practically 4 months and now anywhere between 35240000 people are crossing into colombe on a daily basis in search of basic goods such as rice eggs or medicines that are very difficult to find in venice where i have become way too expensive for these people to buy most of them go back to really swell and a few 1000 though remain in 2 of colombia or try to travel to other countries in
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south america adding to the more than 4000000 businesses that have already left their country in the biggest acts in recent years in latin america given the economic crisis in venezuela and now that the bridges have reopened 3 things are cracking down on illegal crossings that were very dangerous and that people were using also venezuela had promised to begin asking for new documents for colombians wanting to cross into minnesota that was supposed to start today but it hasn't happened and given this one out there it is also said that they would have got rid of the containers blocking these bridges but so far the containers remain in place 4 people have been shot at a rally for the n.b.a. champion raptors in toronto canadian police say 2 people who were carrying firearms have been arrested raptors fans ran from the scene in
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a stampede from the city hall square tens of thousands were in the area when the shooting took place. well you can find much more on our web site including ongoing coverage of. the address for that is al jazeera dot com. in doha and these are the top stories egypt's 1st democratically elected president has died after collapsing in court while on trial for espionage charges gyptian state t.v. says mohamed morsy had a heart attack he'd been in prison since 2013 when he was toppled after less than a year in power lawyer says his body has been buried in cairo his son says egyptian authorities refused permission them to be buried at the family plot the muslim brotherhood has said in a statement that it holds the current president. and his government responsible for
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what they call the planned criminal killing of morsy. let's settle on the have the real me home has even less of a this is a sad day not only for the muslim brothers but also for the egyptian people and for his family and for arabs and muslims and especially for the palestinian people who witnessed how morsi stood with them in the war there's no doubt that history will remember that them as a day morsi was martyred after he was killed by the military you know the u.s. says it's sending about a 1000 extra troops to the middle east the pentagon says it's in response to iran's hostile behavior that comes just hours after the u.s. military released new pictures that it says shows iranian troops removing an unexploded mine from a japanese vessel it was one of the true tank is hit by an explosion last week iran denies involvement. as long as no one causes problems for the security of the straits of hormuz we will preserve its security and as long as the islamic
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republic's oil is exported all of the others will be securely exported to one time if we decide to block the straits of hormuz it will do it in a way that even a drop of oil well past the strait saudi state media says to he drones have been intercepted by air defenses one of them was reportedly targeting a residential area in saudi arabia's city earlier yemen 3 the rebels say they targeted the airport with drones for the 5th time since last wednesday and suicide bombers have targeted a crowd watching a football match on television in northeastern nigeria killing at least 30 people 2 bombers detonated devices in the village of qana duca all those other headlines join me for more news here after the string. talk to al jazeera. problems besides the instability is corruption we listen business i hadn't been so who are pushing the united states and president trump into conflict we meet with
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