Abdullah Mohamed Mohamed Morsi al-Ayyat ( ar, عبد الله محمد محمد مرسى العياط; 3 September 1994 – 4 September 2019) was the son of

Mohamed Morsi Mohamed Mohamed Morsi Eissa al-AyyatThe spellings of his first and last names vary. survey of 14 news organizations plus Wikipedia in July 2012 President of Egypt The president of Egypt is the executive head of state of Egypt and the de facto appointer of the official head of government under the Egyptian Constitution of 2014. Under the various iterations of the Constitution of Egypt following the Egyp ...

and served from 2012 to 2013, when he was ousted in a military coup.

Biography

Born on 3 September 1994 in

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, Abdullah Morsi was the youngest son of Mohamed Morsi, who was Egypt's first

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elected President in 2012 and was overthrown in a coup the following year. Abdullah's mother was Naglaa Mahmoud who was Mohamed's cousin. On 1 March 2014, he was arrested for consuming

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, and released on bail a few days later. He was sentenced to one year in prison, his lawyer denouncing it as a "fabricated" case. He was released on 22 July 2015. In 2018 he studied business administration at the

Canadian International College The Canadian International College (CIC) ( ar, المعهد الكندي العالي, transliteration: ''Al Ma'haad Al Canadie Alaaly''), is an Egyptian Higher institute in Cairo, Egypt. The CIC is the sole provider of Canadian higher education ...

. On 10 October 2018, he was arrested for "spreading fake news" for having denounced during an interview with the Associated Press, the conditions of detention of his father. He was released on

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. His father died in detention on 17 June 2019. Abdullah Morsi accused President

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of having killed him. He died less than three months after the death of his father, on 4 September 2019, of what was said at the time to be a heart attack while driving his car; he had just turned 25 the day before. On 6 September 2019, in the middle of the night (to ward off any revolt), he was buried in all discretion and under close surveillance in the Cairo district of

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, alongside his father, in the presence of his family. On 7 September 2020, Abdullah's lawyers stated that he had actually died after being injected with a lethal substance and not by a heart attack while driving his car as had originally been reported.

References

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