The court will also consider another challenge requesting the banning of the Muslim Brotherhood group, halting all its activities and closing down all its headquarters and property for its failure to obtain a license from the ministry of social solidarity to practice its activities in violation of the law on NGOs.

According to judicial sources, the rulings will be one of two scenarios: Turning down the lawsuit, consequently keeping the current status as it is, or dissolving the group and its party; only then it will be up to the parties’ affairs committee to decide on the legality of the Brotherhood’s party.

The sources added that the dissolution of the FJP will not be of any effect on the legitimacy of Dr. Muhammad Mursī and the legality of his victory in the presidential elections.

If the court ruled in favor of banning the use of the name the Muslim Brotherhood and freezing its activities, the sources noted, there will be nothing new.

They explained that former President Anwar al-Sādāt had issued a decision freezing all activities of the group, which is outlawed already for not obtaining a license from the social solidarity ministry to practice its activities. [Shaymā’ al-Qaranshāwī, al-Misrī al-Yawm, June 19, p. 7] Read original text in Arabic