Riyaz Patel
British MP Crispin Blunt has condemned the conditions Egypt’s Islamist ex-president Mohamed Mursi was held in during his imprisonment.
Mursi, the first democratically elected head of state in Egypt’s modern history, died on Monday after suffering a fatal heart attack in court.
Mursi was buried in a small family ceremony Tuesday as supporters posted messages of grief and anger.
The first democratically elected head of state in Egypt’s modern history, who was deposed by the army in 2013, was laid to rest in Cairo next to the graves of other leaders of the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood, his son Abdullah Mohamed Mursi told Reuters.
Blunt said Mursi’s treatment was so bad ”they might sustain a charge of torture.”
The Muslim Brotherhood has described
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