Egypt rejects UN report on Morsi’s death

An Egyptian Government Minister has slammed a UN expert who warned that former President Mohammed Morsi's death in June could amount to a ‘state-sanctioned arbitrary killing’. A report on the News24 site notes that Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Omar Marwan rejected last week’s statement by an independent panel of UN experts, saying Morsi died in a courtroom ‘in front of everybody’. UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions Agnes Callamard had warned that Morsi was held in ‘brutal’ conditions during his five-year detention in Cairo’s Tora prison. The country’s first democratically elected civilian leader died in June while on trial. Speaking on the sidelines of a review of Egypt's rights record before the UN in Geneva, Marwan said Callamard has ‘committed a violation’ of UN rules of engagement by ‘not waiting for the correct information from the authorities’.