Date of source: Friday, December 1, 2006
Muḥammad Mahdī ʿĀkif was born in Daqahlīyah province, Egypt, in 1928. In 1940 Muḥammad Mahdī ʿĀkif became involved with the Muslim Brotherhood. In August 1954 he was arrested and stood trial on charges of helping in the escape of Major General ʿAbd al-Munʿim ʿAbd al-Ra'ūf, a top member of the army...
Date of source: Sunday, March 8, 2015
The Egyptian court's death sentence for Mahmūd Hassan Ramadān, who had admitted having thrown children from the rooftop during the Alexandria riots in 2013, was the first execution of a supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood since its banning.
Date of source: Sunday, April 12, 2015
The Egyptian court has sentenced to death General Leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, MUhammad Badīʿ, and 13 others who have been charged with violence. Several other leading members of the organisation have been given life sentences.
(12th April 2015, Muraqabun Press, No author mentioned)
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Date of source: Saturday, February 6, 2016
Cairo Criminal Court postponed Saturday the trial of 739 defendants, including the Muslim Brotherhood's Supreme Guide, to March 26 in a case dubbed as "Rab`a al-`Adaweyya dispersal."
Date of source: Sunday, November 8, 2015
Human rights activists strongly condemned an interior ministry report that accused 17 men, allegedly belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood, for the excessive rain floods.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Egyptian security forces have been intensifying their targeting of Muslim Brotherhood leaders and their sympathizers. Muslim Brotherhood sympathizers are suspected of mounting assaults on policemen and police installations as the government has recently arrested 82 people suspected of belonging to...
Date of source: Sunday, September 27, 2015
The Egyptian ministry of Interior has denied the alleged assault at the Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Muhammad Bad`ī by a police officer. “There has been no complaint filed that Bad`ī has been assaulted on his way back from a trial's hearing session,” the assistant interior minster for public...
Date of source: Friday, September 4, 2015
Egypt's Ministry of Interior stated that they had cracked down on two terrorist cells of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Monufia Governorate north of Cairo.
Date of source: Friday, May 29, 2015
Women of Egypt: Campaign stigmatizing women who do not wear the hijāb is a dangerous escalation
Hudā Badrān, the President of the General Council for Egyptian Women, condemned the campaign to disgrace women who do not wear the hijāb. The campaign is spreading over social media and is set to take...
Date of source: Monday, April 18, 2011
Recent claims of Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leaders Maḥmūd ‘Izat and Sa’d al-Husīnī, to turn Egypt into a purely Islamic state, frightened liberals and Copts alike. The article at hand discusses to which extent such fears are legitimized. After all, MB senior officials like Mohamed al-Biltāgī...