Shafaq News / Today, Thursday, it was announced that the Brotherhood leader in Egypt, Essam Al-Erian, had died in prison.

Al-Erian's lawyer told the BBC that he is been told that the death was natural, “while a leading security source reported that the Muslim Brotherhood had died of a heart attack, after it an argument with the Muslim Brotherhood prisoners.

Al-Erian, 66 years old, has been detained since October 2013, Egyptian courts issued sentences against him, including life imprisonment in August 2014, in the case known as “Al-Istiqama Mosque.”