Mohammed Morsi, Egypt's former president and the country’s first freely elected leader, collapsed in court during trial Monday and died. The 67-year-old Muslim Brotherhood leader was being tried on charges of spying. He had just spoken from a glass cage, where he was kept during trial. He warned the court that he had "many secrets" he could tell, a judicial official said. Minutes later, Morsi collapsed, the official said. The official spoke on the condition he not be identified, as he was not empowered to talk to the press. Morsi rose to office in the country's first free elections in 2012, and was ousted a year later by the military. In his final comments, Morsi continued to claim he was Egypt's legal president and demanded a special tribunal, one of his lawyers told the Associated Press. State TV said Morsi died before he could be taken to the hospital.
