The Egyptian authorities have renewed the inclusion of the Muslim Brotherhood in the list of terrorist entities, including about 30 opponents and activists, most notably the former presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh.
Yesterday, Monday, the official Egyptian newspaper, Al-Waqi’a, which is concerned with publishing the official decisions, published a decision issued Thursday by the Cairo Criminal Court.
The second article of the decision also stipulated that "the listing decision in its first and second articles shall be for a period of 5 years from the date of issuance."
In addition to Abdel Moneim Abul-Fotouh, who leads the Strong Egypt Party, the names of the activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah, and Hassan Khairat Al-Shater, one of the sons of the detainee, Khairat Al-Shater, deputy guide of the Brotherhood appeared.
For his part, lawyer Khaled Ali said that the defendants have no choice but to appeal the decision before the Court of Cassation within 60 days of its publication in the Egyptian newspaper, Al-Waqaei.
In December 2013, the Egyptian regime declared the Brotherhood a banned and terrorist group, following the coup against the late President Mohamed Morsi, who belonged to the group.
The new decision comes about two weeks after the Saudi Council of Senior Scholars considered the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization, repeating a similar description issued by the Saudi Ministry of Interior in March 2014, in support of the position of the Egyptian coup authorities at the time.