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UAE pressure on Al-Azhar to issue anti-Muslim Brotherhood statement fails

Official sources have uncovered Emirati pressure on the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmad Al-Tayeb to engage in the Saudi-Emirati campaign against the Muslim Brotherhood (MB). The New Arab quoted sources in Al-Azhar's Council of Senior Scholars stating that Al-Tayeb was contacted by high-level United Arab Emirates (UAE) personalities to issue an anti-Muslim Brotherhood statement. However, the grand imam sought instead to convince the parties that forcing Al-Azhar into such conflicts […]

27 November 2020

International News

Senior Muslim Brotherhood official dies in Egypt jail

Prominent Muslim Brotherhood leader, Essam El-Erian, died today in the notorious Scorpion Prison, south of Cairo, at the age of 66, according to several sources. Local media, including Al-Youm Al-Sabe’ and El-Watan newspapers, reported that El-Erian died after suffering a heart attack in his prison cell in Tora Prison – which is also known as Scorpion Prison. The BBC quoted El-Erian’s lawyer, whose name was not mentioned, saying authorities informed […]

14 August 2020

International News

Egyptian spy ordered TV smear campaign against former presidential hopeful Shafiq

An Egyptian secret service agent ordered a prominent TV host to prepare a showreel of footage to discredit former presidential hopeful Ahmed Shafiq as a Muslim Brotherhood sympathiser, according to a leaked conversation. Audio of conversations between the agent Captain Ashraf al-Kholi and the host Azmi Megahed, broadcast by the Turkish-based Arabic television channel Mekameleen on Monday evening, reveals a plan to "crack" Shafiq's head and smear him if he […]

9 January 2018

International News

Deadly blast strikes mosque in Egypt’s Sinai

At least 235 people have been killed in a bomb and gun attack on a mosque in Egypt's northern Sinai Peninsula, according to state media. The attack took place in the al-Rawda village, west of el-Arish, shortly after Friday prayers. Egyptian state media MENA provided the death toll, citing an official security source. It also said that 120 people were wounded in the attack. Local media reports said that attackers […]

24 November 2017

International News

Ex-Muslim Brotherhood leader Mahdi Akef dies at 89

The former leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, Mahdi Akef, has died in a Cairo hospital aged 89. Akef, who headed the Brotherhood as the group's so-called supreme guide from 2004 to 2010, was diagnosed with cancer last year. "My Father is in God's hands," his daughter, Alia, wrote on her Facebook page on Friday. Akef was among hundreds of Brotherhood figures arrested in a heavy crackdown launched against the political […]

23 September 2017

International News

Egypt blocks 21 websites, including Al Jazeera

Egypt has banned 21 news websites, including the main website of Qatar-based al Jazeera television, for "supporting terrorism", state news agency MENA and security sources said on Wednesday. Reuters tried to access five websites named by local Egyptian newspapers and broadcasters, including the Al Jazeera website, and found them all inaccessible. There was no immediate official comment available. An official from the National Telecom Regulatory Authority could not confirm or […]

25 May 2017

International News

Hosni Mubarak acquitted over 2011 protester killings

Six years after the uprising that ended his rule, former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has been acquitted over his alleged involvement in the killings of hundreds of protesters in 2011. The Court of Cassation's final ruling on Thursday could see Mubarak walk free. After an all-day hearing, Judge Ahmed Abdel Qawi announced: "The court has found the defendant innocent." The Cairo-based court rejected demands by lawyers of the victims to reopen […]

3 March 2017

International News

Threat of blacklisting Muslim Brotherhood leaves community in fear

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told lawmakers last month that Washington should prioritise defeating Islamic State to then focus on “radical” groups, including al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood. The subtle reference lumping of al-Qaeda, the militant organisation behind the 9/11 attacks, with a popular political movement that reaches across the Middle East and North Africa is telling of a broader animosity toward the Muslim Brotherhood in the Trump administration, […]

10 February 2017

International News

Saudi Arabia plans to remove the Brotherhood from terrorist lists.

Saudi Arabia plans to remove the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt from terrorist lists. The group was banned in the kingdom in March 2014. Senior-level sources stated that there has recently been discussions and meetings held in London, Riyadh, and Istanbul between Muslim Brotherhood officials and representatives of King Salman Bin Abdulaziz’s government resulting in the possibility of removing the group’s name from the terrorist lists in exchange for understandings between […]

9 December 2016

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