Egypt Court Bans All Muslim Brotherhood Activities
Members of the Muslim Brotherhood and supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi form silhouettes during a protest against the military and interior ministry near the El-Thadiya presidential palace in Cairo September 20, 2013. Egyptian security forces were hunting for armed supporters of Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood on Friday after retaking control of a town near Cairo in a crackdown on Islamists. (Reuters Photo)
Cairo. An Egyptian court on Monday banned the Muslim Brotherhood from operating and ordered its assets seized, in the latest blow to the Islamist movement of deposed president Mohamed Morsi.
The court also banned “any institution branching out from or belonging to the Brotherhood,” the official MENA news agency reported, possibly restricting the movement’s political arm the Freedom and Justice Party.
The ruling ratchets up an intensifying crackdown on the Brotherhood since the army’s July 3 overthrow of Morsi.
Last month, security forces stormed two Cairo protest camps, sparking clashes in which hundreds of Islamist demonstrators were killed.
The operation drew criticism of the military-installed interim authorities from foreign governments and human rights groups.
A judicial source told AFP the court ruled that a government committee should be created to manage the Brotherhood’s seized assets.
The Cairo court “ruled to ban all activities by the Muslim Brotherhood organization, the group emanating from it and its non-governmental organization,” MENA reported.
The ruling may be appealed and overturned by a higher court.
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Egypt bans Brotherhood
Court orders assets frozen
The ruling opens the door for a wider crackdown on the vast network of the Brotherhood, which includes social organizations that have been key for building the group’s grassroots support and helping its election victories. The verdict banned the group itself — including the official association it registered under earlier this year — as well as “any institution branching out of it or ... receiving financial support from it,” according to the court ruling, made public on Egypt’s state official news agency MENA.
The judge at the Cairo Court for Urgent Matters also ordered the “confiscation of all the group’s money, assets, and buildings” and said that an independent committee should be formed by the Cabinet to manage the money until final court orders are issued. The verdict can be appealed.
The Brotherhood was outlawed for most of its 85 years in existence. But after the 2011 ouster of Hosni Mubarak, it was allowed to work openly, formed a political party and rose to power in a string of post-Mubarak elections. In March, it registered as a recognized non-governmental organization.
In the past three years, the movement set up headquarters in a multi-story building in Cairo and opened offices across the country for its Freedom and Justice Party.
All these buildings are likely to be seized under the court order, which can also if upheld criminalize membership with the movement.
“This is totalitarian decision,” leading group member Ibrahim Moneir said in an interview with Qatari-based Al-Jazeera Mubashir Misr TV. “You are losers and it (the Brotherhood) will remain with God’s help, not by the orders by the judiciary of El-Sissi,” he added, referring to military chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah El-Sissi, who led the overthrow of Morsi on July 3.
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