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Egypt accuses UN of seeking to ‘politicise’ Morsi death
CAIRO, June 19, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – Egypt accused the United Nations on
Wednesday of seeking to “politicise” the death in court of the country’s
first democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi by calling for an
“independent inquiry”.
Foreign ministry spokesman Ahmed Hafez said he condemned “in the strongest
terms” the call by the spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human
Rights, Rupert Colville, for an independent investigation into Morsi’s death
on Monday.
Hafez said it was a “deliberate attempt to politicise a case of natural
death.”
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