Egypt accuses UN of seeking to politicize Morsi’s natural death’

Cairo says UN’s call for independent probe into Morsi’s death is a deliberate attempt to politicize a natural death.

Egypt is accusing the United Nations of seeking to politicize the death in court of the country’s first democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi by calling for an independent inquiry.

Foreign ministry spokesperson Ahmed Hafez said on Wednesday he condemned “in the strongest terms” the call by the spokesperson for the UN high commissioner for human rights, Rupert Colville, for an independent investigation into Morsi’s death on Monday.

Hafez said it was a “deliberate attempt to politicize a case of natural death”.

Egypt’s first official comments on Morsi’s death came amid growing criticism about prison conditions in the middle east nation.