Commemorating Morsi in the “Year of Palestine” .. a virtual conference to memorialize the late Egyptian president, with the participation of Marzouki

Former Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki participated in a virtual conference to commemorate the second anniversary of the death of the late Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, organized by the “Morsi Foundation for Democracy” with the participation of Egyptian and Arab activists and politicians.

The conference was titled ” The Second Anniversary of the Departure of President Mohamed Morsi…The Year of Palestine ” and a number of politicians and religious figures participated, including the Egyptian politician Ayman Nour, the preacher of Al-Aqsa Mosque Sheikh Ikrima Sabri, and the Palestinian Christian cleric Father Manuel Musallam.

Al-Marzouki said – in his speech – that Morsi was right when he opened the gates of Egypt to Gaza, and was behind the Palestinian cause without the slightest calculation, as he believed in freedom and the Arab revolutions, as he put it.

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former Tunisian president recalled the violations suffered by the late Egyptian president and his family during his imprisonment.

Morsi is the first democratically elected civilian president in the history of Egypt, as he took over the rule of the country after the first presidential elections in the wake of the January 25, 2011 revolution, and his rule did not last more than one year, when he was overthrown by a military coup in July 2013 on the pretext of responding to protests popularity.

After the coup, the president of Egypt was kept in solitary confinement and denied visitation for 6 years, until his death in the courtroom at the age of 68.