FILE PHOTO: Deputy head of the Freedom and Justice Party Essam El-Erian gestures behind bars with other Muslim Brotherhood members at a court in the outskirts of Cairo, April 21, 2015. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh/File Photo
CAIRO (Reuters) - Essam el-Erian, a senior leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, died in prison in Cairo on Thursday after suffering a heart attack, prison sources, a lawyer and local media said.
Erian, 66, had served as deputy leader of the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, and was swept up in a crackdown on the movement's leadership after it was forced from power in 2013.
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