Son seeks better treatment for ex-Egyptian president Morsi in prison

CAIRO — Once a month, Abdullah waits outside Cairo’s notorious Tora prison for hours, standing without shade under the blazing Egyptian sun for a chance to see his father.

And almost every time, for five years, he has been denied access to Egypt’s most famous, but least heard-from prisoner — former President Mohamed Morsi, the Islamist whose divisive year in power ended with a military ouster in 2013.

“I won’t sit on the ground while I wait, it’s not dignified,” he said. “I know they will deny my request, but I still have to try.”

Morsi’s family is campaigning to gain more access to the former president, who since his overthrow has appeared only in court, almost always in a soundproof cage.