Mohammed Morsi was toppled by a military-backed coup amid more mass protests in 2013 and arrested on various charges.
Former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi has died, local and regional media has reported.
The general who led efforts to remove Morsi from power, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, went on to become elected president in 2014 and won his second term after a largely uncontested vote last year. Egypt's ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi, wearing a red uniform, gestures from behind the bars during his trial in Cairo at the police academy in Cairo on April 23, 2016. Morsi spent his final years in prison, having been arrested on a number of charges since he was kicked out of office a year into his tenure in 2013.
Sissi has since closely aligned his country with Saudi Arabia, whose royal family is deeply critical of the Muslim Brotherhood. In 2017, Egypt joined Saudi Arabia as well as Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates in total boycott of Qatar in part due to its support for the group, which President Donald Trump has considered branding a terrorist organization.
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