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Africa North

Egypt Designates 31 Muslim Brotherhood Members as Terrorist

2021-09-05

[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] An Egyptian court on Friday added 31 members of the banned Moslem Brüderbund to terrorist lists for a period of five years.

Among them is Aisha Shater, daughter of the group’s deputy leader Khairat al-Shater.

She is facing charges of joining a terrorist group that was formed in violation of the law and of incitement against the state.

All 31 members were charged with corroborating in 2018 with a terrorist group in achieving its goals, receiving funding for terrorist purposes and taking part in a criminal conspiracy with the aim of committing a terrorist crime.

Egypt banned the Brotherhood in 2014, designating it as a terrorist organization.

It has been accused of involvement in ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful acts that took place after the ouster of president Mohammed Morsi — a member of the group — in 2013.

Hundreds of its leaders and supporters, including its supreme guide Mohammed Badie, are on trial on charges largely related to incitement to violence. Several verdicts, including death sentence

...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
s, have been issued against the suspects.

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Africa North

Egypt court upholds life sentences for 10 Muslim Brotherhood members

2021-07-14

[IsraelTimes] Group’s leader, Mohammed Badie, among those found guilty of charges related to killing coppers, organizing mass jailbreaks during Egypt’s 2011 uprising; no further appeal possible.

Egypt’s highest appeals court on Sunday upheld the life sentences of 10 leaders of Egypt’s outlawed Moslem Brüderbund, including the group’s head, the state-owned MENA news agency reported.

Whew! Another case reaches its final appeal and its final ruling, and now they only need to deal with all the others still in process. I can’t think of a Hell more deserved than this for these.

In 2019, a Cairo criminal court had convicted all 10, including the group’s leader, or supreme guide, Mohammed Badie, of charges related to killing coppers and organizing mass jailbreaks during Egypt’s 2011 uprising. That revolt culminated in the ouster of longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak
...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011...
The defendants were found guilty of helping around 20,000 prisoners escape, and of undermining national security by conspiring with foreign holy warrior groups — the Paleostinian Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede, and Leb
Leb

...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady human sacrifice days of Baal Moloch. In 2020 Hezbollahblew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate faci8lity exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that...
’s Hezbollah.

Meanwhile,
...back at the comedy club, Boogie ducked another tomato...
the Court of Cassation acquitted eight middle-rank leaders of the nation’s oldest Islamist organization, who were sentenced earlier to 15 years in prison.

All of the sentences, which the court considered on appeal, are final.

Sunday’s rulings upheld the latest of several life sentences for Moslem Brüderbund leaders. They had gone on trial several times since the crackdown on the group in 2013 following the military ouster of Egypt’s first democratically elected president, the late Mohammed Morsi. Morsi had hailed from the group’s ranks. His one-year rule had proven divisive
...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled...
and provoked nationwide protests.

Tens of thousands of Egyptians have been arrested since 2013, and many have fled the country. Morsi himself was a defendant in the prison-break case, but he collapsed in a courtroom and died while appearing in a separate trial in the summer of 2019.

Last month, the Court of Cassation upheld the death sentence
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
for 12 people involved in a 2013 protest by Islamists, including several senior Moslem Brüderbund leaders.

Rights groups in Egypt and abroad have denounced the trials and death sentences as a mockery of justice.

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Africa North

Egypt Sentences Senior Brotherhood Leader to Life in Prison

2021-04-09

[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] A big shot of Egypt's Moslem Brüderbund was convicted on terror charges and sentenced Thursday to life in prison, months after he was detained in a Cairo apartment.

According to the Middle East News Agency, a Cairo court found Mahmoud Ezzat, the acting supreme guide of the Brotherhood, guilty of terror acts that followed the 2013 military overthrow of president Mohammed Morsi.

In August, 76-year-old Ezzat was arrested after police found him hiding in an apartment in Cairo’s Fifth Settlement district.

According to authorities at the time, a search of the apartment uncovered computers and mobile phones with encrypted software that allowed Ezzat to communicate with group members in Egypt and abroad. Documents with "destructive plans" were also found, police said.

Ezzat was named the group’s acting leader in August 2013 after Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie’s arrest. He was convicted of several terror-related crimes and sentenced twice to death in absentia.

Following his arrest, he was retried, as Egyptian law dictates.

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Africa North

Mahmoud Ezzat Muslim Brotherhood's leader in Egypt is arrested.

2020-08-29

[Twitter-Reuters]

This week's biggest news from Islamist world is most definitely the arrest of Muslim Brotherhood's leader in Egypt. I hope Egyptian govt leads this arrest to its logical conclusion. https://t.co/g2O5MEXq8g
— FJ (@Natsecjeff) August 28, 2020

Egypt arrests acting Supreme Guide of terrorist-designated Brotherhood Mahmoud Ezzat at Cairo hideout

[AlAhram] Ezzat was named the group’s acting leader in August 2013 and has been in hiding ever since; he is also the head of the Brotherhood's international organization.

Egyptian authorities have arrested Mahmoud Ezzat,

... seen as a hardliner within the Muslim Brotherhood...

the acting supreme guide of the terrorist-designated Moslem Brüderbund, at a hideout in eastern Cairo, in the most significant Brotherhood arrest in recent years.

In a statement on Friday, Egypt’s interior ministry said the runaway group leader, who is also the head of the Brotherhood's International Organization, was arrested following intelligence that he was hiding at a flat in New Cairo’s Fifth Settlement neighbourhood.

They said Ezzat had used the apartment as his latest hideout, "despite rumours promoted by the Brotherhood’s leaders about him being abroad, to mislead authorities."

The leader was arrested after a raid carried out per a warrant by the Supreme State Security Prosecution, the statement said, adding that several laptops and mobile phones with open-source software to secure communication with leaders and members of the banned group inside the country and abroad were found.

According to the statement, Ezzat was in charge of forming the Brotherhood’s "armed wing" and the supervisor of major terrorist operations since 30 June 2013 until his arrest.

"Operations supervised by Ezzat include the liquidation of former general prosecutor Hisham Barakat in 2015, policeman Wael Tahoun in 2015, top-ranked army officer Adel Ragei in 2016, and the attempted liquidation of the general prosecutor’s former aide Zakaria Abdel-Azim in 2016," the statement said.

It also charged him with supervising a deadly car blast outside the capital’s main cancer hospital in August 2019 which killed 20 people.

Ezzat was also responsible for "cyber-attacks which manage [spreading] rumours and fake news to stir confusion and divide public opinion," the statement said, adding that he managed the "movement of the group’s funds and funds to activities through the group’s members abroad from suspicious international organizations."

Ezzat, 76, has been in the Brotherhood ranks since the 1960s and was named a member of the group's Guidance Bureau, or its executive board, in 1981. He has previously been detained for several years for his activism and affiliation with the group.

He was named the group’s acting leader in August 2013, after the arrest of Supreme Guide Mohammed Badie, who received a fourth final life sentence in July on violence-related charges, totalling 100 years.

Ezzat’s whereabouts had previously been unclear since that date.

He has been given several sentences in absentia, including life imprisonment terms and the death penalty

, during mass trials of the Brotherhood’s leading members on charges of espionage with Paleostinian group Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", and other violence-related crimes.

Under Egyptian law, in absentia convictions must be re-tried once the defendant is apprehended.

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Africa North

Egypt's court upholds life sentences for top Brotherhood leader Badie

2020-07-15

[Al Ahram] Egypt’s top appeals court upheld on Tuesday life sentences against the leader of the now-banned Moslem Brüderbund group Mohammed Badie and others over violence in Upper Egypt’s Minya that followed the ouster of late Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in 2013.

The Court of Cassation rejected appeals filed by186 defendants, including Badie, against their prison terms, and acquitted 63 others, a judicial source said, without specifying how many received final life sentences.

In September 2018, a Minya criminal court sentenced Badie and 87 others to life imprisonment over festivities in the southern governorate.

The court also handed over 200 other defendants jail terms ranging from two to 15 years and acquitted 463 others in the same case.

The mass trial dates back to violence in August 2013 that followed the dispersal of a sit-in by supporters of ousted president Morsi, which left hundreds of Brotherhood members and dozens of police dead.

The defendants were convicted of charges including assaulting a cop shoppe in Minya, killing several coppers and the attempted murder of others.

The verdicts are final and cannot be appealed.

Tuesday's sentences are the latest in a series of trials and re-trials against Badie, the Brotherhood’s Supreme Guide, and other big shots of the Islamist group that ruled Egypt before Islamist president Mohammed Morsi was ousted following massive protests.

It is the fifth final life sentence handed to Badie, totaling 125 years.

It comes days after the same court upheld life sentences for Badie, his deputy Khairat El-Shater and four others over violence in front of the group’s main headquarters in Cairo ahead of Morsi's ouster.

That verdict was the first final ruling against El-Shater, who had been handed a total of another 40 years in jail that can still be appealed.

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Africa North

Egypt Brotherhood chief, deputy get life for 'spying'

2019-09-12

[ALARABY.CO.UK] An Egyptian court has sentenced 11 Moslem Brüderbund leaders to life in prison on charges of espionage with the Paleostinian holy warrior group Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw,.

They included the Brotherhood's supreme guide Mohammed Badie and his deputy Khairat al-Shater who were both handed life sentences - 25 years in Egypt.

This is the latest of several sentences against Badie, who received a life sentence last week on charges related to mass prison breaks during the 2011 uprising.

Five other Brotherhood members were sentenced to jail terms ranging from seven to 10 years while six were acquitted, the source said.

The defendants were accused of "committing crimes in collaboration with foreign organizations" namely Hamas and the Lebanese Shiite holy warrior group Hezbollah, the source said.

They were also accused of "financing terrorism" and committing acts undermining the country's stability and security.

Mohammed Fahmy, the judge presiding over the case, said before the verdict was announced: "The crimes the defendants committed harmed the independence and security of the country."

"They betrayed their nation and there is no excuse for them," he added.

The verdict can still be appealed, the source added.

Rights groups have repeatedly criticised such sentencings and called on authorities to ensure fair trials.

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Africa North

Egyptian court gives life sentence to Muslim Brotherhood leaders

2018-12-06

[PRESSTV] A court in Egypt has sentenced to life in prison Moslem Brüderbund leader Mohammed Badie, his deputy Khairat al-Shater, and four others over their alleged role in violence at the time of the ouster of the first democratically elected President Mohammed Morsi in 2013.

Judicial sources said the court issued the ruling on Wednesday as part of a retrial over violence between Brotherhood supporters and opponents near the Brotherhood headquarters in the capital Cairo back in 2013.

The rulings are the latest among several trials and retrials of Badie and other big shots of the Brotherhood that ruled the African country before the military, led by incumbent President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, ousted Morsi following mass protests in 2013.

The court on Wednesday sentenced Badie, Shater and four others to life in prison over violence between Brotherhood supporters and opponents near the headquarters, but acquitted former Parliament Speaker Saad al-Katatny along with a former minister, two prominent Brotherhood figures and two others.

All of the defendants have the right to appeal one final time before the Court of Cassation, Egypt's highest civilian court.

The public prosecution may also appeal the acquittals or the life prison terms that two defendants got instead of death penalty

.

The defendants faced charges of inciting violence against the protesters in front of the Brotherhood headquarters, aggravated battery and possession of firearms.

Authorities had referred 18 defendants, including five who remain on the lam, to trial in the case and a ruling was issued in 2015.

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Africa North

Egypt court orders retrial of Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Badie

2018-10-01

[Al Jazeera] A Cairo court has ordered a retrial of the Moslem Brüderbund's leader Mohammed Badie and other senior figures from the group from October 7, judicial sources and state news agency MENA reported.

Badie, the Brotherhood's spiritual leader, has already been sentenced to death and prison terms in other trials since Egypt's military removed President Mohammed Morsi, also a member of the Brotherhood, in July 2013.

According to MENA, the retrial relates to a case in which Badie and 14 others were handed life sentences for incitement to commit murder and attempted murder of anti-Moslem Brüderbund demonstrators near the group's headquarters in June 2013.

Four others were sentenced to death in the February 2015 ruling.

Egypt's Moslem Brüderbund banned from politics
The new charges include premeditated murder, attempted murder, beating to death and possession of unlicensed weapons, MENA reported.

It is not clear why the charges were modified but according to Egyptian law, charges can be altered if new evidence arises.

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Africa North

Egyptian court sentences Muslim Brotherhood leader, 65 others, to life in prison

2018-09-24

[PRESSTV] An Egyptian criminal court has sentenced the Supreme Guide of the now-outlawed Moslem Brüderbund and 65 others members of the movement to life in prison over charges of incitement to murder and violence during demonstrations five years ago.

On Sunday, 75-year-old Badie was convicted to life in prison over allegedly inciting members of the banned movement to attack Maghagha cop shoppe in the southern Egyptian province of Minya and killing a police officer in August 2013.

The attack came shortly after Egyptian security forces launched violent attacks on protest camps at Rabaa al-Adawiya Square in the capital, Cairo, and Nahda Square in Giza, the third largest city in Egypt.

Human Rights Watch said at the time more than 815 people had been killed only at Rabaa Square, whereas the Egyptian Health Ministry put the corpse count at 638. The rights organization later said that the massacre had been one of the world’s largest in a single day in recent history.

An absolute majority of those killed were followers of Mohammed Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically-elected president, who was ousted on July 3 the same year in a military coup led by then head of the armed forces and current President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.

According to defense lawyer Abdel Moneim Abdel Maqsood, around 700 people were tried again in this case. He said that 65 other members of the Brotherhood had also been sentenced to life in prison on Sunday, adding that 288 were acquitted, six have died since the first trial and the rest were sentenced to between three and 15 years in prison.

The process is the punishment. Al Ahram adds:

The sentence is the latest among a series of trials and re-trials against the Supreme Guide of Egypt's Moslem Brüderbund Mohammed Badie and other big shots of the Islamist group that ruled Egypt before Islamist president Mohammed Morsi was ousted following massive protests.

The court had previously sentenced Badie to death 2014 in this case, but an appeals hearing had overturned the verdict and ordered a retrial.

Another 81 defendants were sentenced to between 10-15 years in prison and dozens of others were handed shorter jail terms. The court acquitted 288 other defendants in the same case.

Last month, Badie and other senior Brotherhood leaders were sentenced to life in prison over similar charges in a separate case.

In July, a court referred the cases of Badie and other Brotherhood leaders in a separate case to Egypt’s top Moslem religious authority, the Mufti, for his opinion on whether they should be sentenced to death.

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Africa North

Egypt sentences 75 to death, hundreds to jail over 2013 sit-in

2018-09-09

[ARABNEWS] An Egyptian court on Saturday issued death sentences for 75 people and locked away
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
more than 600 others over a 2013 sit-in which ended with the killing of hundreds of protesters by security forces.

The sentencing concluded the mass trial of some 700 people accused of offenses including murder and inciting violence during the pro-Moslem Brüderbund protest at Rabaa Adawiya square in Cairo.

The government says many protesters were armed and that eight members of the security forces were killed. It initially said more than 40 police had died.

Rights groups say more than 800 protesters died in the single most deadly incident during the unrest that followed Egypt’s 2011 popular uprising. ~~Amnesia~~ Amnesty International condemned Saturday’s decision, calling the trial "disgraceful."

In Saturday’s hearing at the vast Tora prison complex south of Cairo, a criminal court sentenced to death by hanging several prominent figures including senior Brotherhood leaders Essam al-Erian and Mohammed Beltagi and preacher Safwat Higazi.

Moslem Brüderbund spiritual leader Mohammed Badie and dozens more were given life sentences, judicial sources said. Others received jail sentences ranging from five to 15 years.

Cases were dropped against five people who had died while in prison, judicial sources said, without giving further details.

Following weeks of protests in 2013 against the ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Mursi by the military, security forces violently broke up the demonstrators at Rabaa square.

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Africa North

Egyptian court sentences Muslim Brotherhood leader to life in prison

2018-08-13

[PRESSTV] A court in Egypt has sentenced the chairman of the outlawed Moslem Brüderbund and other big shots of the movement to life in prison over charges of alleged incitement to murder and violence during protest rallies five years ago.

The Brotherhood’s Supreme Guide Mohammed Badie received life sentence from the Giza Criminal Court on Sunday, along with some other top leaders of the movement, including Mohammed el-Beltagy, Safwat Hegazy, Essam el-Erian and al-Husseini Antar.

The rulings are the latest among several trials and retrials against Badie and other big shots of the Brotherhood that ruled the African country before the military, led by incumbent President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, ousted the first democratically-elected president, Mohammed Morsi, following mass protests in 2013.

The court on Sunday also sentenced Bassem Ouda, the former supply minister under Morsi's rule, to 15 years in jail. It also sentenced the movement’s prominent figures Hisham Kamel, Gamal Fathi, and Ahmed Dahi to 10 years in prison over charges of alleged incitement to commit violent acts in the protests.

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Africa North

Cairo court sentences 75 protesters to death

2018-07-29

[Al Jazeera] Senior members of outlawed Muslim Brotherhood among those ordered executed by the Cairo Criminal Court.

Filed on P.2: WoT Background because this is only an intermediate step in a process with several levels aid review and appeal, all of which already has, and will continue to take years.

Egypt court seeks Mufti's opinion on death sentences for 75 leading Brotherhood members in Rabaa dispersal case

[AlAhram] An Egyptian criminal court issued on Saturday preliminary death sentences to 75 members of the terrorist-designated Moslem Brüderbund group in the criminal case known as "the Rabaa Dispersal Case."

Those defendants sentenced to death include the former Supreme Guide of the Moslem Brüderbund Mohammed Badie as well other prominent Brotherhood members Essam El-Erian, Mohammed Beltagy and Wagdy Ghoneim.

The case dates back to the dispersal of the Rabaa sit-in by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in August 2013.

The dispersal left hundreds dead including dozens of coppers.

The defendants were charged by prosecution of several crimes including premeditated murder, attacking citizens, resisting authorities, destroying public property, and possessing firearms and Molotov cocktails

The court referred the preliminary sentences to the Grand Mufti for a non-binding consultation per the Egyptian penal code.

The court set 8 September as the date to issue the final verdict for all 739 defendants accused in the case.

A final verdict can be appealed.

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