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Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood rejects ‘struggle for power’, says deputy leader

July 29, 2022 MEO Staff

The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) that has endured fierce crackdown since 2013 overthrow of Egypt’s first democratic President Mohamed Morsi, has announced it rejects “struggle for power”, reported Reuters, citing Mr. Ibrahim Munir, the group’s deputy [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt: MB deputy leader ‘Mahmoud Ezzat’ sentenced to life in prison

April 18, 2022 MEO Staff

An Egyptian court, on Sunday 17 April 2022, sentenced Dr. Mahmoud Ezzat, the deputy general guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, to life in prison in a case known in the media as “storming Egypt’s eastern [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt: 10 sentenced to death for allegedly planning for attacks

January 31, 2022 MEO Staff

An Egyptian court has sentenced 10 members of the Muslim Brotherhood group to death for allegedly coordinating and planning attacks on the police, charges which defendants and their families denied. A Twitter account called Mr. [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt: Brotherhood leader “Mahmoud Ezzat” decries prison conditions during a court hearing

December 27, 2021 MEO Staff

Dr. Mahmoud Ezzat, 77, says he has not been allowed to leave his solitary cell for 16 months, and that he has not been able to meet his lawyers or family. Dr. Mahmoud Ezzat, the [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Lawsuit to nationalise assets of the heirs of the deceased President Morsi!

September 20, 2020 MEO Staff

A committee specialising in the seizure of assets belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt has filed a lawsuit to nationalise the funds of 89 members of the group, including the heirs of the deceased [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

HRW: Kuwait Return of Egyptian Dissidents Unlawful

July 19, 2019 Ahmed Rashed

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has condemned authorities in Kuwait for “unlawfully” returning eight Egyptians to Cairo over claims they were part of a “terrorist cell” linked to the Muslim Brotherhood.  The New York-based rights group [ More … ]

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Calls for releasing ill Brotherhood spokesman jailed in Egypt

July 16, 2019 MEO Staff

Egyptian social media activists on Sunday launched a campaign calling for saving the life of Gehad Haddad who suffered from food contamination in an Egyptian jail. Since the military overthrow in July 2013 of Egypt’s [ More … ]

Column

The Muslim Brotherhood Is Not a Terrorist Organization, FA

May 20, 2019 MEO Staff

In late April, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he would seek to have the State Department designate the Muslim Brotherhood a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). How Designating It Would Undermine the United States. By: [ More … ]

Analysis

Calls to ban the Muslim Brotherhood aim to criminalise US Muslim dissent, not counter-terrorism

May 11, 2019 Ahmed Rashed

When America’s founders passed the First Amendment, protecting the right to dissent was the objective.   Having experienced a repressive English state, they understood the hallmark of authoritarianism lies in the absence of freedom of thought, [ More … ]

Analysis

On Brotherhood, Trump Weighs Siding with Autocrats and Roiling Middle East: Analysis

May 7, 2019 MEO Staff

US President Donald Trump was only days into office in January 2017 when he first began considering a move with the potential to ignite a firestorm in the Middle East: designating the Muslim Brotherhood, a [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

MB likely ban and Trump’s deadly message to Arabs and white Islamophobes

May 4, 2019 MEO Staff

The fight to stop Muslim Brotherhood (MB) ban is not about whether political Islam is a good or bad thing. It’s about protecting democracy at home and abroad He is not really embarrassed by what [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Trump Pushes to Designate Muslim Brotherhood a Terrorist Group

May 1, 2019 MEO Staff

The Trump administration is pushing to issue an order that would designate the Muslim Brotherhood a foreign terrorist organization, bringing the weight of American sanctions against a storied and influential Islamist political movement with millions [ More … ]

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The Economist: Muslim Brotherhood, Egyptian Govt’s Favorite Scapegoat

March 12, 2019 MEO Staff

When things go wrong, the regime invariably blames the Muslim brothers Passengers waiting on the platform had only seconds to run before they were engulfed in flames. On February 27th a train hurtled into Cairo’s [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egyptian regime campaign to Congress targeting Brotherhood

December 5, 2018 MEO Staff

Egyptian politicians and oppositionists in the United States underestimated the effectiveness of attempts by the regime of the coup leader, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, to influence the position of the US Congress against the Muslim Brotherhood, [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Amnesty says 19 rights activists, lawyers arrested in Egypt

November 2, 2018 MEO Staff

 Amnesty International says Egyptian authorities have arrested 19 rights lawyers and activists, including eight women, as part of the country’s ongoing crackdown on civil society. The London-based advocacy group says in a Thursday statement that [ More … ]

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