Tag: Muslim Brotherhood
Acting leader of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood arrested in Cairo
Egyptian authorities said on Friday they had arrested the acting leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mahmoud Ezzat, during a raid on an apartment in...
Alleged Muslim Brotherhood members sent back to Egypt
Kuwait handed eight Egyptians who admitted carrying out terrorist operations in their home country and fled to Kuwait after being convicted back to the...
Five year sentence for Egyptian Islamist
Hard-line Egyptian Islamist leader Hazem Salah Abu Ismail’s five-year sentence for involvement in a court siege in Nasr City in 2012 was upheld by...
Life sentences for Muslim Brotherhood father and son
An Egyptian court handed life sentences to Hassan Malik, a leader of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, his son Hamza and five others after convicting...
Daughter of senior Muslim Brotherhood leader detained
Egyptian security forces detained the daughter of former presidential candidate and senior Muslim Brotherhood leader Khairat al-Shater, family members and security sources...
Court orders retrial of Muslim Brotherhood leader
An Egyptian court ordered a retrial of the Muslim Brotherhood's leader Mohamed Badie and other senior figures from the banned group starting...
Muslim Brotherhood leader jailed for life
The head of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and other leaders of the banned group were sentenced to life, judicial sources said, on charges...
Life sentence upheld for Egypt Brotherhood leader
An Egyptian court upheld a life sentence against Mohamed Badie, leader of the banned Muslim Brotherhood over 2013 violence, judicial sources said....
Egyptian court hands fresh life sentence to Muslim Brotherhood leader
An Egyptian court sentenced top Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie to another life term in prison on Thursday in the latest example...
Major security clampdown in Egypt, protests fail to materialise
Egypt imposed a major security clampdown in its cities on Friday as mass demonstrations called to protest against austerity measures failed to...
Muslim Brotherhood plot apparently foiled on eve of planned protests
Egypt said on Thursday police uncovered a stash of weapons supporters of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood were plotting to use ahead of...
Egypt arrests militants, links them to Muslim Brotherhood
Egyptian authorities said on Friday they had arrested members of two recently emerged militant groups, along with weapons, explosives and evidence that...
Egypt gives life sentences to Brotherhood supporters for 2013 riot
An Egyptian court sentenced two Muslim Brotherhood supporters on Saturday to life in prison and 16 others to 15 years in jail...
Egypt says it killed senior Muslim Brotherhood leader in shootout
Egypt's Interior Ministry said early on Tuesday that it killed a senior Muslim Brotherhood leader it said was responsible for the group's...
Egypt accuses Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas of assassinating prosecutor
Egypt has accused exiled Muslim Brotherhood officials of conspiring with Gaza-based Hamas militants to assassinate Public Prosecutor Hisham Barakat last year and...
Egypt arrests six Muslim Brotherhood members over killing of prosecutor
Egypt has arrested six alleged Muslim Brotherhood members in connection with the killing of Public Prosecutor Hisham Barakat last year and ordered...
Senior Muslim Brotherhood figure arrested in Egypt
Egyptian security forces have arrested Hassan Malik, a leader of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, security officials said, part of a sustained crackdown...
Egypt loyalists take the lead in parliament elections
A political alliance loyal to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has scooped all 60 list seats up for grabs in the first...
Special Report – In Egypt, jailed Islamists ‘dying of neglect’
Muslim Brotherhood lawmaker Mohammad al-Falahgi was arrested on terror charges in 2013 and held in prison, but never convicted. Earlier this year,...
Egyptian Brotherhood leader handed sixth life prison sentence
Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and several other prominent Islamists were sentenced to life in prison on Saturday for murder and...
In Egypt, the “disappeared” resurface on TV as terrorists
Plainclothes Egyptian state security officers pounced on Suhayb Saad as he left a Cairo restaurant in June.
They blindfolded the activist and his...
Six Muslim Brotherhood supporters killed in clashes in Cairo
Six supporters of Egypt's outlawed Muslim Brotherhood were killed in clashes with police near the Giza pyramids in Cairo on Friday, security...
Facing new militant threat, Sisi crackdown risks more instability in Egypt
Despite the lessons of the past, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is relying on fighter planes, mass arrests and death sentences to...
Egypt arrests Brotherhood members for alleged Suez plot
Egyptian authorities have arrested 13 members of the Muslim Brotherhood on suspicion of planting bombs around the Suez Canal to disrupt shipping,...
Egypt court hands Mursi death sentence in blow to Muslim Brotherhood
An Egyptian court sentenced deposed President Mohamed Mursi to death on Tuesday over a mass jail break during the country's 2011 uprising...
Egypt prosecutor refers 58 Brotherhood supporters to military prosecution
Egypt's public prosecutor on Sunday referred the case of 58 suspected Muslim Brotherhood supporters accused of committing "terrorist acts" to the military...
Egypt says uncovers Brotherhood plot, day before Mursi sentencing
Egypt said on Monday it had thwarted a Muslim Brotherhood plot against the state, a day before a court is expected to...
Egypt’s judges new frontline in battle against militancy
Egyptian security forces have grown accustomed to being targeted by Islamist militants. Now some judges are buying guns for protection after a...
Egypt sentences 69 to prison for church attack
Sixty-nine suspected Muslim Brotherhood supporters were each sentenced to 25 years in prison in Egypt on Wednesday for attacking and burning a...
Egypt sentences Muslim Brotherhood leader, others to death
An Egyptian court sentenced Mohamed Badie, leader of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, and 13 other senior members of the group to death...
Egypt to try another 379 Brotherhood members over sit-in violence
Egypt's public prosecutor referred a further 379 alleged members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood to court on Wednesday over sit-ins in August...
Egypt refers 187 Brotherhood supporters to military court
An Egyptian prosecutor has referred to a military court 187 alleged Muslim Brotherhood supporters who are accused of killing police officers in...
Egypt lists top Brotherhood leader, 17 others as terrorists
Egypt's public prosecutor has listed the Muslim Brotherhood's leader and 17 other top members of the group as terrorists, state media said...
Egyptian court wants death penalty for Brotherhood leader and 13 others
An Egyptian court seeks the death penalty for the Muslim Brotherhood's top leader Mohamed Badie and 13 other members of the group...
Egypt courts list Hamas as terrorist group, give Brotherhood leader life
An Egyptian court listed the Palestinian group Hamas as a terrorist organisation, judicial sources said on Saturday, part of a sustained crackdown...
Egypt refers 215 to court for forming a militant group
Egypt's public prosecutor said on Sunday he had referred 215 members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood to trial on charges of forming...
Egypt court orders retrial of 36 sentenced Brotherhood members
An Egyptian court on Wednesday ordered the retrial of 36 supporters of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood who were sentenced to death in...
Egypt court sentences 183 Muslim Brotherhood supporters to death
An Egyptian court sentenced 183 supporters of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood to death on Monday on charges of killing police officers, part...
Egypt court orders retrial for 37 Brotherhood members
An Egyptian court ordered a retrial for 37 Muslim Brotherhood members sentenced to death and 115 others sentenced to life in a...
Egypt court sentences seven jihadists to death in Sinai case
An Egyptian court has sentenced to death seven men, including prominent Islamist militant Adel Habara, over the killing of 25 policemen last...
Egyptian court sentences 185 to death for attack on police
An Egyptian judge sentenced 185 Muslim Brotherhood supporters to death on Tuesday over an attack on a police station near Cairo last...
Muslim Brotherhood leaders jailed for insulting court a day after Mubarak...
An Egyptian judge sentenced the leader of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood and 25 others on Sunday to three years in jail for...
Egypt arrests Brotherhood leader as crackdown intensifies
Egyptian police on Thursday arrested Mohamed Ali Bishr, one of the few Muslim Brotherhood leaders to escape jail after last year's overthrow...
Egypt bans pro-Mursi pressure group
Egypt on Thursday banned a pressure group that has pushed for the reinstatement of President Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood, who...
Egyptian court jails 23 activists for violating protest law
An Egyptian court jailed 23 young activists for three years on Sunday for violating a law banning protests without a permit, judicial...
Egyptian court jails 68 Muslim Brotherhood supporters
An Egyptian court sentenced 68 Muslim Brotherhood supporters to jail terms on Tuesday, judicial sources said, in a case related to deadly...
Egypt court sentences Brotherhood leader, cleric to 20 years in jail
An Egyptian court sentenced a leader of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood and an Islamist cleric to 20 years in prison on Tuesday...
Egypt court dissolves Muslim Brotherhood’s political wing
An Egyptian court on Saturday dissolved the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the political wing of the banned Muslim Brotherhood, dealing a...
Egyptian court sentences Muslim Brotherhood leader to life in prison
An Egyptian court sentenced Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie to life in prison on Saturday, the court's judge said, for inciting violence...
U.N. condemns Egypt’s death penalties, Al Jazeera prison terms
Egypt should free three Al Jazeera journalists who were jailed on Monday for seven years and stop the "obscene" practice of holding...
