Egypt’s first democratically elected president has been jailed since being deposed in 2013 by his defense minister Abdel Fatah el Sisi who is now the country’s president.

Egyptian authorities have declared a state of emergency in Mohamed Moursi’s birthplace El Adwah where he will be buried today according to Muslim practice.

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Qatar’sEmir Sheikh Tamin Bin Hammad Al Thani have both referred to Moursi as a martyr.

Members of the now outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, that he led to victory in 2012 elections, describe his death a murder, saying he was denied medical treatment in prison for diabetes and high blood pressure.

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Egypt’s first democratically elected president  was buried in Cairo, hours after collapsing and dying in court yesterday where he was facing espionage charges.

Egyptian President Abdel Fatah El Sisi is wary of unrest following the death of Mohamed Moursi whom he ousted in a 2013 coup.

A state of emergency was declared in Moursi’s birthplace of El Adwah where his family planned to bury him.

Authorities prevented that and his body was interred in Cairo with a few family members present.

El Sisi faces pressure from human rights groups to conduct an independent investigation into the treatment of Moursi who has been jailed since the coup that toppled him after barely a year in office.

His family and supporters say he was denied proper medical treatment for diabetes and high blood pressure.

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