Those publications that referred to Moursi collapsing any dying in court while facing espionage charges did not refer to the fact that he was Egypt’s first democratically elected president.

His politics of fear has kept the lid on things domestically.

But Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El Sisi is under growing pressure to reveal how Mohamed Moursi was treated in detention.

El Sisi’s had him jailed immediately after unseating him in a 2013 coup.

Tory MP Crispin Blunt, who heads Britain’s Independent Detention Review Panel, visited Moursi last year and warned that denying the man with chronic ailments  proper medical care was sentencing him to a premature death. 

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