Summary
Egyptian authorities Monday opened up Tora prison in Cairo for a media tour, following a UN report on the "brutal" conditions in which jailed ex-president Mohamed Morsi was held before his death.
It was arranged in response to a stinging review last week by an independent panel of UN experts that blasted conditions in Tora.
The experts said the death of ousted Islamist president Morsi, who was held in Tora for five years, could amount to a "state-sanctioned arbitrary killing".
On the media tour, abuse charges in Tora were dismissed by politicians and personalities that included for example retired ex-national football goalkeeper turned television pundit Ahmed Shobeir.
The former head of the army turned president led the military's ouster of Morsi in 2013 .
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