Tag: Muslim Brotherhood
Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Mohamed Badie jailed for life
An Egyptian criminal court on Monday handed down a life sentence to the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood along…
Egypt court confirms death sentence for Brotherhood chief, 11 others
An Egyptian court confirmed death sentences for Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and 11 other defendants on Saturday, and jailed…
Egypt Brotherhood chief handed fourth life sentence
An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced to life imprisonment the head of the banned Muslim Brotherhood over the killing of…
Egypt frees Jazeera journalists pending retrial
An Egyptian court ordered the release of two jailed Al-Jazeera journalists Thursday pending retrial, after they spent more than 400…
Egypt court orders retrial of jailed Jazeera reporters
Egypt’s top court Thursday ordered a retrial of three Al-Jazeera reporters whose imprisonment on charges of aiding the Muslim Brotherhood…
Egypt court sentences Brotherhood leader, 36 Islamists to life
An Egyptian court sentenced Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and 36 other Islamists to life in prison Saturday, and confirmed…
Egypt Islamists call ‘day of anger’ to mark Morsi ouster
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood called for a ‘day of anger’ Thursday to mark the first anniversary of the military overthrow of…
Jazeera condemns ‘unjust’ Egypt verdicts against staff
Al-Jazeera slammed as “unjust” an Egyptian court decision Monday to jail three of its journalists for between seven and 10…
Australia ‘shocked’ at Jazeera’s Greste Egyptian verdict
Australian government has expressed shock at verdict against Al Jazeera’s Peter Greste. Greste was sentenced to seven years by an…
Egypt jails Jazeera journalists for up to 10 years
An Egyptian court Monday sentenced three Al-Jazeera journalists including Australian Peter Greste to jail terms ranging from seven to 10…
Egypt sentences 183 to death including Brotherhood chie
An Egyptian court on Saturday confirmed death sentences for 183 Islamists, including Muslim Brotherhood chief Mohamed Badie, a prosecutor said,…
Egypt jails 19 Morsi supporters for five years
An Egyptian court jailed 19 supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi for five years on Saturday for storming the…
Egypt sentences 54 Morsi supporters to life in jail
An Egyptian anti-terror court on Wednesday sentenced 54 supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi to life in prison for…
Egypt Muslim Brotherhood chief, 682 others sentenced to death
An Egyptian court on Monday sentenced Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and 682 other alleged Islamists to death, a lawyer…
Cameron Orders Probe Of Muslim Brotherhood
British Prime Minister David Cameron has ordered an investigation into the activities of Muslim Brotherhood over concerns that the group…
Another 700 Egypt Islamists charged
An Egyptian court that sentenced 529 people to death began trying about 700 more alleged supporters of deposed president Mohamed…
5 Egyptian soldiers killed at checkpoint
Gunmen opened fire on a checkpoint in Cairo Saturday, killing five Egyptian soldiers, state television reported. The attack comes two…
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood gets terrorist tag
CAIRO, (AFP) – Egypt’s military-installed rulers declared the Muslim Brotherhood of ousted president Mohamed Morsi a “terrorist” organisation Wednesday, signalling…
Egypt Court Bans Muslim Brotherhood
An Egyptian court on Monday banned the Muslim Brotherhood from operating and ordered its assets seized, in the latest blow…
Zawahiri speaks on ‘one-eyed’ bin Laden in video
DUBAI(AFP) – Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri resurfaced for the second time in a month on Wednesday in an online video…
Morsi Egypt’s new president
Muslim Brotherhood member, Muhammed Morsi has been declared the winner of Egypt’s run-off election. According to the country’s electoral commission,…
Protests in Egypt, confusion overhangs polls
Several thousand Egyptians took to Tahrir Square in Cairo Tuesday to protest against the ruling military’s bid to grab new…
Egypt’s military dissolves parliament
On the day, Egyptians filed out to elect a new president, the ruling military government told parliament on Saturday it…