Born on September 3, 1994 in Sharqia Governorate, Abdullah Morsi is the youngest son of Mohamed Morsi, who was Egypt's first democratically elected President in 2012 and was overthrown in a coup the following year. Abdullah's mother was Naglaa Mahmoud who was Mohamed's cousin. On March 1, 2014, he was arrested for consuming hashish, and released on bail a few days later. He was sentenced to one year in prison, his lawyer denouncing it as a "fabricated" case. He was released on July 22, 2015.