Egypt’s former President, Mohammed Morsi, who was ousted by the army in 2013, has died in court, state TV says.
The former president was said to have fainted after a court session where he was facing espionage charges and subsequently died.
He had been serving a seven-year sentence for falsifying his candidacy application for the 2012 presidential race.
He was 67.
Mr Morsi, who hailed from Egypt’s largest Islamist group, the now outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, was elected president in 2012 in the country’s first free elections following the ousting the year before of longtime leader Hosni Mubarak.
The military ousted Mr Morsi in 2013 after massive protests and crushed the Brotherhood in a major crackdown, arresting Mr Morsi and many others of the group’s leaders.
