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{{Short description|Son of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2021}}
{{Infobox person
| image = Abdullah Morsi.jpg
| caption =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1994|9|3|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Sharqia Governorate]], Egypt
| death_date = {{death date and age|2019|9|4|1994|9|3|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Giza]], Egypt
| father = [[Mohamed Morsi]]
| mother = [[Naglaa Mahmoud]]
}}
{{Mohamed Morsi}}
'''Abdullah Mohamed Mohamed Morsi al-Ayyat''' ({{lang-ar|عبد الله محمد محمد مرسي العياط}}; 3 September 1994 – 4 September 2019) was the son of [[Mohamed Morsi]], who was the first [[President of Egypt]] to be elected by the Egyptian people that served from 2012 to 2013 following his ousting by a military coup.

==Biography==
Born on 3 September 1994 in [[Sharqia Governorate]], Abdullah Morsi is the youngest son of Mohamed Morsi, who was Egypt's first [[democratically]] elected President in 2012 and was overthrown in a [[2013 Egyptian coup d'état|coup]] the following year. Abdullah's mother was Naglaa Mahmoud who was [[Cousin marriage|Mohamed's cousin]]. On 1 March 2014, he was arrested for consuming [[hashish]], and released on bail a few days later. He was sentenced to one year in prison, his lawyer denouncing it as a "fabricated" case.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/28/world/middleeast/naglaa-ali-mahmoud-an-egyptian-everywoman-in-the-presidential-palace.html?pagewanted=all|title=Egypt's Everywoman Finds Her Place is In The Presidential Palace|author=Mayy El Sheikh|date=27 June 2012|accessdate=8 October 2020|work=The New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://finance.yahoo.com/news/egypt-court-jails-morsis-son-hashish-charges-173708971.html|title=Egypt court jails Morsi's son for year on hashish charges|website=finance.yahoo.com}}</ref> He was released on 22 July 2015.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Youssef |first=Adham |date=22 July 2015 |title=Morsi’s son released from prison after serving sentence |url=https://dailynewsegypt.com/2015/07/22/morsis-son-released-from-prison-after-serving-sentence/ |website=dailynewsegypt.com}}</ref>

In 2018 he studied business administration at the [[Canadian International College]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Statement of Abdullah Mohamed Mohamed Morsi Al-Ayyat|url=https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a9301ef0dbda346e74d0bf9/t/5ab826ce6d2a730df02258a9/1522018001442/Abdullah+Morsi+-+statement.pdf|website=static1.squarespace.com|language=en|date=11 March 2018|access-date=5 September 2019}}</ref> On 10 October 2018, he was arrested for "spreading fake news" for having denounced during an interview with the Associated Press, the conditions of detention of his father. He was released on [[bail]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://apnews.com/article/e40e756465e4435a8c0164605bbf5227|title=Egyptian police question, release son of jailed ex-president|date=11 October 2018|website=AP NEWS}}</ref> His father died in detention on 17 June 2019. Abdullah Morsi accused President [[Abdel Fattah al-Sisi]] of having killed him.<ref>{{cite web|title=Did Egypt authorities kill Abdullah Morsi?|url=https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190906-did-egypt-authorities-kill-abdullah-morsi/|website=Middle East Monitor|access-date=6 September 2019}}</ref>

He died less than three months after the death of his father, on 4 September 2019, of what was said at the time to be a heart attack while driving his car and had just turned 25 the day before.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/05/son-former-egyptian-president-mohamed-morsi-abdullah-dies-25|title=Son of former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi dies aged 25|agency=Associated Press|date=5 September 2019|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref> On 6 September 2019, in the middle of the night (to ward off any revolt), he was buried in all discretion and under close surveillance in the Cairo district of [[Nasr City]], alongside his father, in the presence of his family.<ref>{{cite web|title=Mohamed Morsi’s youngest son buried next to father in the middle of the night|url=https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/mohamed-morsis-youngest-son-buried-next-father-cairo|website=Middle East Eye|access-date=6 September 2019}}</ref> On 7 September 2020, Abdullah's lawyers stated that he had actually died after being injected with a lethal substance and not by a heart attack while driving his car as had originally been reported.<ref>{{cite news |title=Egypt: Lawyers say Morsi's son killed by 'lethal substance'|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/09/egypt-lawyers-morsi-son-killed-lethal-substance-200907194812314.html|work=Al Jazeera |date= 7 September 2020}}</ref>

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[[Category:Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood members]]
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[[Category:Egyptian murder victims]]
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[[Category:People murdered in Egypt]]

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