Former Egyptian President Muhammad Mursi Dies In Today's Memory, June 17, 2019

President of Egypt, Muhammad Mursi during a visit to India. (Wikimedia Commons)

JAKARTA Memories of today, five years ago, June 17, 2019, former President of Egypt, Muhammad Mursi died. The figure of Egypt's first leader, who came from civilians, died while undergoing a trial in court on espionage charges.

Previously, Mursi was widely known as a member of the Ikhwanul Muslimin organization. He and the Islamic movement emerged as government opposition against repressive military power. Mursi's struggles have often been challenged. He was also in prison.

Education and living comfortably abroad do not make Mursi complacent. He did get education and a comfortable life in the United States (US). Mursi has worked at the United States Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA).

The work did not make his desire to serve the nation and state disappear. He immediately returned to Egypt in 1985. Mursi then devoted himself to being a technical professor at Zagazig University. However, he actually tried to swerve from educators to politicians.

He began to enter the political arena under the banner of Ikhwanul Muslimin. His career skyrocketed. He began his career as a member of the People's Council in 2000. He tried to be transformed into a real representative of the people. he fought on the basis of the people's wishes.

Mursi's voice was getting more and more noisy. He never stopped criticizing the government. It is like stripping the government, which often acts repressively and gives excessive power to the security forces.

The sound of resistance provoked the government's anger. Husni Mubarak's government took a stand. They sentenced Mursi to seven months in prison in 2006. In fact, the prison did not soften Mursi.

Protests continue. Mursi and all the Egyptian people also rode the Arab Spring (Central East Revolution) which toppled Husni Mubarak in 2011. He has the same thoughts as other Egyptian citizens, Mubarak has been leading too long.

This condition made Mursi's name surface. He ran for Presidential Candidate in the 2012 Egyptian Presidential Election and won. He then became the number one person Egypt was elected. His power is considered capable of bringing new hope to the whole of Egypt. There are also those who think that Mursi made Ikhwanul Muslimin ride the revolution.

The victory of Mursi does not seem to end the fierce polarization of the Egyptian people. Many secular and liberal young activists who started the uprising against Mubarak reunited to support Ikhwanul Muslimin against the military's seizure of power.

The return protests to support the ruling generals have reportedly increased to 10,000. A group of lawmakers calling themselves liberal held a televised press conference to express their support for the generals and disbandment of Parliament led by Ikhwanul Muslimin, "said David D. Kirkpatrick in his writing on the Named Egypt's Winner page, Islamist Makes History (2012).

The leadership of Mursi is also short. Many people are not satisfied with the presence of Mursi with the banners of the Muslim Brotherhood. They don't want Egypt to be brought into an Islamic State. Demonstration action Gelora reappeared everywhere in 2013.

The bloody coup also appeared in the same year. The Kudeta managed to arrest Mursi. Defense Minister Abdel Fattah al Sisi then rose as President of Egypt. Abdel's power made his former boss, Mursi tried on three separate charges.

Attempts to leak the country's remains to Qatar, kill protesters, and become Hamas spies. He was sentenced to prison for a long time. Many times the government began to impose new accusations on him. In fact, until Mursi died.

Mursi died while undergoing a court hearing on charges of espionage on June 17, 2019. Not a few thought the death was odd. Mursi also seemed deliberately destroyed. Speculation regarding Mursi's unnatural death became stronger when Turkish President Erdogan criticized the Egyptian government for the death of Mursi.

The first democratically elected civilian president, Mohamed Morsi, fainted during a court hearing and died. Mursi for almost six years had to bear the sintapa because her power was in a bloody coup, "explained Ruth Michaelson as quoted on The Guardian's website entitledMohamed Morsi, Ousted President of Egypt, Dies in Court (2019).