a transcript from mohamed morsy himself a trial in november twenty seventh teen where he gives an account of his health and his conditions then there are a number of reports from his family. and his lawyers of human rights watch reports honest international reports united states state department of course on saying he's in egypt the united kingdom government's human rights work so there's been a whole plethora of evidence all of which corroborates the general narrative which mohammed morsi was giving us is his trial which is a record of transcript no surprise i suppose that certainly the school pins units in tora prison has such a bad reputation we have some of our own colleagues who were held there for over four hundred days but the report goes into who might respond. simple and it goes all the way to the top once you base found well the chain of command is responsible for conditions of prison and it is. beyond doubt that the current president of egypt is going to have an interest in the incarceration conditions of his predecessor. and the idea that everyone is. not paying interest in th

has sisi is certain to win while sisi came to power after overthrowing the muslim brotherhoods mohamed morsi egypt's first democratically elected president the brotherhood was later outlawed by the country's military government. has more. there was a small window of democracy in egypt's long history of strongman backed by the military that was in two thousand and twelve when mohamed morsi was sworn in. but the triumph of egypt's first democratically elected president and the party he represents the muslim brotherhood lost in just twelve months the largest representative of political sunni islam in egypt is now labeled by the state as a terrorist organization which the brotherhood denies there's no room for any kind of political practice nobody is allowed to express his opinion nobody is allowed to field him self as a candidate in as a serious candidate in front of sisi the military controls everything. you muslim brotherhood has been on the hit list of egyptian rulers for nearly a century has an alumna the first guy general was believed to have been killed by egyptian secret police in one th

the election is supposed to last five days it's now the second day of the election incumbent mohammed morsi is poised to win this election as he only has one opponent against him mr morsi who is a supporter of mohammed of the current president of egypt and he will. serve another four years in office if he is reelected president abdel fattah as we watch those images of egyptians voting turnout of course all will be closely watched it is expected that the president will see this as a way to legitimize his rule if many gyptian do turn out to vote in the polls over the next few days in the polls. talk about more of egypt and what's been happening on the political scene there now hopefully with i guess who is going to be clear very soon from our london news center as we've been seeing the political scene in egypt has completely changed over the last four years since. he was removed from office and since the revolution let's speak to. a political activist and head of the egyptian revolutionary council she joins us from london thank you so much for being with us how would you compare way things ar

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egypt a long history of strong when backed by the military that was in two thousand trilled and mohamed morsi was sworn in but the triumph of egypt's first democratically elected president and the party he represents the muslim brotherhood lasted just twelve months. the largest representative of political sunni islam in egypt is now labeled by the state as a terrorist organization which the brotherhood denies there's no room for any kind of political practice nobody is allowed to express his opinion nobody is allowed to field him self as a candidate in as a serious candidate in front of sisi the military controls everything. the muslim brotherhood has been on the hit list of egyptian rulers for nearly a century has an alumna the first guy general was believed to have been killed by egyptian secret police in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine. despite supporting the nursery who became president the brotherhood was banned in one nine hundred fifty four dozens of members were arrested or escaped another brotherhood leaders say it but it was hanged on the orders of president. throughout the on

the brotherhood's freedom and justice party was elected for the first time along with president mohamed morsi who is known death row for ordering the killing of protesters. just a year after taking charge he was removed in a military coup led by the current president of the fatah and sisi morsi supporters accused the so-called deep state especially within the military hierarchy of not allowing the muslim brotherhood government to function in that single year after the first fully democratic election the main mistake is actually handing over their responsibility of managing the transitional period after the revolution after ousting hosni mubarak handing over this power to to the military took to the military and the military had all the time in order to abort the achievements of the revolution and. like other military rulers of egypt sisi has ordered the jailing of thousands of brotherhood supporters and successfully lobbied regional backers to declare the group as a terrorist organization. exiled members and brotherhood supporters say the ruling clique is suppressing moderate voices and warni

says he is certain to win now since he came to power after overthrowing the muslim brotherhoods mohamed morsi egypt's first democratically elected president the brotherhood was later outlawed by the country's military government a solid binge of aids has more. there was a small window of democracy in egypt's long history of strongmen backed by the military that was in two thousand and twelve when mohamed morsi was sworn in but the triumph of egypt's first democratically elected president and the party he represents the muslim brotherhood lasted just twelve months. the largest representative of political islam in egypt is now labeled by the state as a terrorist organization which the brotherhood denies there's no room for any kind of political practice nobody is allowed to express his opinion nobody is allowed to field him self as a candidate in as a serious candidate in front of sisi the military controls everything. you muslim brotherhood has been on the hitlist of egyptian rulers for nearly a century has some of them under the first guy general was believed to have been killed by egyptian s

previous year when he led a coup deposing the country's first democratically elected president mohamed morsi since taking power sisi has made numerous promises and pledges to the egyptian people in a bid to win their support first he vowed to defeat what he described as potential violence and terrorism in the digital fleet i call on all egyptians to take to the streets to task me with preventing the potential violence and terrorism that threatens us. in reality however since sisi became president attacks and bombings appear to have increased dramatically across the country i saw which did not have a branch in egypt recruited fighters and began killing soldiers and police officers in sinai but the violence was not limited to the peninsula car bombs in central cairo and alexandria are testament to cc's inability to deliver on his promise of security another pledge made by the army general was to build a national road network that would connect cities and help improve road safety i would i will build a world class road network within one year that will connect all of egypt. four years have now

him coming to power on the back of protests from a large part of the population to get rid of mohamed morsi. in the wake of that when he became president, he pledged to sort out the country's economy. the underlying issues going forward are likely to remain similar. he has been quite low-profile during his campaign. when he has spoken out it has been to place emphasis on setting up the fight against militants in the sinai peninsula in the wake of a series of attacks. the economy will always be looking -- lurking in the background. anhave seen egypt taking on imf loan. inflation here shut up. -- shot up. those are the kinds of things that will be affecting people's daily lives regardless of the politics over the next four years. >> thanks so much for that. chris will be hosting our election special live tonight from egypt. that starts at 6:30 p.m. french time. is moussaallenger mustafa moussa who publicly supports the president. is theear-old moussa sole candidate running against el sissi in the upcoming vote. >> i believe i have equal chances. i believe that my program will get me a high en

participated in the last election in two thousand and fourteen compared to twenty twelve when mohamed morsi became egypt's first democratically elected president egypt's election authorities said sisi received a ten million more votes in twenty fourteen then morsi did in two thousand and twelve so forty seven point five percent in twenty fourteen fifty two percent in two thousand and twelve but check out this number from two thousand and five only twenty three percent of eligible voters cast ballots in that race when former president mubarak faced a challenger from the gods party that's the same party as cc's only challenger. now pop culture has played a role in getting people to vote this week and many of the prominent pro-government hashtags for the election featured videos of people dancing outside polling stations playing songs by popular artists encouraging people to participate this song. or good omen was released for the twenty fourteen election but it continues to be played outside many polling stations this week it's a massive hit that's racked up more than two hundred and eighty s

supreme council of armed forces he was appointed by the muslim brotherhood president mohamed morsi to be the defense minister the same president that he ended up then ousting in june of two thousand and thirteen after after after popular uprising against morsi more scenes rule so he he said in general this year i believe that he was quote unquote not a politician and he said that in reference to the uprising of twenty eleven he said you know what happened then will not happen again and what was not achieved back then will not be achieved now what he meant to say i think at the time was you know i'm not a politician i'm not here to talk talk talk i'm here i'm about action to what extent this and he's done a lot but what extent this action has been effective is. a big big open question thank you very much. for talking to us about presidential elections. south korea has agreed to cut steel exports to the united states by thirty percent in order to avoid donald trump tariffs south korea's trade minister described negotiations with the united states as fierce but insisted his country wasn'

spring in two thousand and eleven egyptians then elected the candidate from the muslim brotherhood mohamed morsi he was affectively forced out of office by so you see how well represented are more of these former supporters in these elections . not very well representative told given that the muslim brotherhood is now classified as a terrorist organization in egypt it's probably fair to say that most brotherhood supporters to staying at home and not going to the polls at the very least there are large parts of the missing brotherhood who have either been expressed or who are in exile people with a kind of religious motivation to voting and not very well represented in this elections but at the same time it's kind of mainstream liberal voters and we've seen some opposition figures who are not religious in any sense in any public sense of the word asking people to stay home and so that seems to be a sizable part of the electorate being represented there to. it's been seven years now since hosni mubarak left office he was considered a very authoritarian leader then came the arab spring and now here

been killed there since the military deposed the country's first democratically elected leader mohammed morsi despite several military campaigns egyptian authorities of fail to regain full control over the sinai according to state media the military's latest operation which began on february ninth has killed at least eighty two fighters. and imprisoned more than one thousand eight hundred. u.s. senators are trying to overrule the president's military authority by forcing a vote on the country's involvement in the war in yemen members of congress are using a nine hundred seventy three law to try to force the withdrawal of american forces from what they call an authorized war the united states has provided weapons and intelligence for the saudi led coalition targeting iranian backed fighters in yemen since twenty fifteen german intelligence officials are warning it's premature to link a major cyber attack on its government service to a russian hacking group on wednesday it was revealed hackers breached the government's computer network and managed to steal data from the foreign and defense mini

election in june of two thousand and twelve which was won by this man the muslim brotherhoods mohamed morsi think about how big a deal this was the leader of a party with islamic principles which had been banned in the mubarak years was now the democratically elected president of egypt but perhaps not surprisingly this didn't sit well with the old guard nor did it help that morsi dismissed the defense minister the chief of staff and trying to limit the influence of both military and judiciary by early twenty thirteen the protesters were back this time against morsi and in july the president was overthrown by the egyptian army and it is at this point that we are starting to see the beginnings of that full circle which we talked about the muslim brotherhood it was declared a terrorist group political parties based on religion were banned so again that only really affected the muslim brotherhood and when a presidential election was held again in may of twenty fourteen egyptians elected a former army chief bill foster o.c.c. as their leader with nearly ninety seven percent of the vote though it

nine hundred people were killed when the military staged a coup against the elected president mohamed morsi and raised a massive protest camp. there's a massacre it was carried out in broad daylight in front of television cameras and it was actually designed to be seen it was designed for the whole country and whole world to watch or harmful to the terror seems to be struck into the kind of threat the psyche of the country and for any part of the part of. so that. it doesn't make any sense trying to come. shooting videos and showing the state coming people when the story admits that. today there is a deadly calm in the gyptian politics like before the revolution elections take place at the end of march and president and sisi made sure that any serious opposition candidates were disqualified. on the surface it looks as if life has returned to normal. but in reality the arab spring is not completely over how will things book makes this very clear. that we can clearly feel that it was such as i can remember still seeing the ripples of the still seeing unserviceable stream of counter-revolution

>> reporter: in 2013, sisi ousted then-president mohammed morsi, egypt's first democratically-elected president, after the 2011 uprising that deposed long-time leader hosni mubarak. a year later, sisi won more than 96% of the vote. sisi has led a harsh security crackdown, imprisoning thousands. h si gone after free expression, civil society andh rivals b the political andsa military realm fahmy. >> instead of building schools and other infrastructure projects, he's had to 16 new prisons. he had a clampdown on medi both domestic and international. >> reporter: but sisi's popularity h been hurt by a bad economy. strict economic reforms were enacted in 2016 tovoid insolvency. inflation skyrocketed, with food prices risinby 30%. and while unemplment is around 11%, almost 80% of those without jobs are young people. all is as sisi prosecutes a war with an isis-affiliated insurgency in the sinai peninsula. armed groups there have killed more than 700 civilians and at least 1,000 security forces since 2014. in 2015, militants blew up a russian civilian airliner, killing more than 200 peop on

previous year when he led a coup deposing the country's first democratically elected presidents mohamed morsi since taking power sisi has made numerous promises and pledges to the egyptian people in a bid to win their support first he vowed to defeat what he described as potential violence and terrorism in the middle fleet i call on all egyptians to take to the streets to task me with preventing the potential violence and terrorism that threatens us. in reality however since sisi became president attacks and bombings appear to have increased dramatically across the country i saw which did not have a branch in egypt recruited fighters and began killing soldiers and police officers in sinai but the violence was not limited to the peninsula car bombs in central cairo and alexandria are testament to cc's inability to deliver on his promise of security another pledge made by the army general was to build a national road network that would connect cities and help improve road safety i mean i will build a world class road network within one year that will connect all of egypt. four years have now pa

election in june of two thousand and twelve which was won by this man the muslim brotherhoods mohamed morsi think about how big a deal this was the leader of a party with islamic principles which had been banned in the mubarak years was now the democratically elected president of egypt but perhaps not surprisingly this didn't sit well with the old guard nor did it help that mostly dismissed the defense minister the chief of staff and trying to limit the influence of both military and judiciary by early twenty thirteen the protesters were back this time against morsi and in july the president was overthrown by the egyptian army and it is at this point that we are starting to see the beginnings of that full circle which we talked about the muslim brotherhood it was declared a terrorist group political parties based on religion were banned so again that only really affected the muslim brotherhood and when a presidential election was held again in may of twenty fourteen egyptians elected a former army chief bill fattah el-sisi as their leader with nearly ninety seven percent of the vote though

participated in the last election in two thousand and fourteen compared to two thousand and twelve when mohamed morsi became egypt's first democratically elected president egypt's election authority said sisi received ten million more votes in twenty fourteen than morsi did in two thousand and twelve so forty seven point five percent and twenty fourteen fifteen percent turn down twenty twelve check out this number from two thousand and five only twenty three percent of eligible voters cast ballots in that race when former president mubarak faced a challenger from the god party that's the same party as sees only challenger mystify mussa. now pop culture has played a big role in getting people to vote in egypt if you look on any of the prominent pro-government hashtags for the election you'll probably see videos of people dancing outside of polling stations playing songs by popular artists encouraging them to participate well the song bush threats or good omen omen rather was released for the twenty fourteen election cycle but it continues to be played outside many polling stations it's a massive hit t

had a second second round of elections where there's also a very very close thirteen percent for mohamed morsi twelve percent for much of there is also very close it showed that the vote the egyptian society is very diverse right very dynamic with its vote has a very different attitude in terms of supporting a conservative candidate or a liberal candid. international scandal was very very diverse so we have an idea how a free and fair elections should look like in egypt because we had a model before so this turnout figure of thirty nine percent that we're getting right now it looks like despite the threats and incentives over these past three days egyptians boycotted this election right what does it say about the mood of the people today because this is a form of confiscation is it not on one end the strategy of pressuring the media of the media strategy of pressuring the social pressures exerted on egyptian citizens did not work on one and but also on the other and there was a joke saying that the accused to pay the fine would be much longer than any queues for for this elections so many of t

banned shipping weapons to egypt after the military coup which ousted president mohamed morsi the us that in reinstated those deliveries three years ago despite what transparency international says is limited evidence of reforms let's speak to james lynch now he's the deputy director of transparency international u.k. he joins us from london. you've said that the egyptian people have a military that does everything but the but keep the country secure what do you mean by that. well you western western states you know egypt international partners often view. government and president of c.c. and the egyptian armed forces as a partner on security president mccrone said very relatively recently that he said that the first battle that france and egypt have is a joint battle against terrorism. but in reality there are real questions about whether military and president el-sisi are really partners on security are they really delivering security in the four years since president came to power egypt's security has deteriorated dramatically you know with that with that with the burning insurgen