DHAKA: The wife of Egypt’s toppled president says she has visited him in prison, their first face-to-face contact since he was forced out of office in a popularly backed military coup four months ago.

Naglaa Ali told media by phone that she and other family members met with Mohammed Mursi on Thursday inside a maximum security prison called Borg al-Arab, which sits in a remote desert area near Alexandria, Egypt’s second city.

She said the visit lasted one hour. Ali told media, ‘Thank God, it’s just like I saw him yesterday... He is more steadfast and bold’, reports The Straits Times.

Mursi was toppled in a July 3 coup and has been held since.

He appeared in public for the first time Monday at a hearing on charges he incited murder and violence during clashes last year outside the presidential palace.

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