Today, Sunday, an Egyptian court sentenced Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, the former presidential candidate in Egypt and leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mahmoud Ezzat, to 15 years in prison, on charges of spreading false news, AFP reported, quoting a judicial official.

According to the agency, the court also issued life sentences to 14 other defendants in the case that began in 2018, in which leaders and members of the group were accused of "spreading false news and inciting against state institutions."

Aboul Fotouh is considered one of the most prominent politicians in Egypt;

He was a prominent candidate in the elections that Egypt witnessed after the January 2011 revolution that toppled President Hosni Mubarak after 30 years in power, and he ranked fourth in the elections won by the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Morsi, who remained in power for one year before being elected. He was dismissed following the intervention of the army led by the then Minister of Defense, current President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi.

Aboul Fotouh ran in those elections after his dismissal from the position of Deputy Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood because of his insistence on running in the presidential elections, contrary to the position of the group, noting that the group changed its position refusing to compete in the elections and pushed Morsi, who managed to win after a run-off with him and Ahmed Shafiq, who Mubarak had He appointed him prime minister after the outbreak of the January revolution.

#Urgent: The Supreme State Security Criminal Court sentences Mahmoud Ezzat, Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh and 7 others to 15 years in prison, on charges of spreading false news that harms the country's national interests pic.twitter.com/PQWXBZvz80

- Monitor Network (@RassdNewsN) May 29, 2022

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The Egyptian authorities arrested Aboul Fotouh in February 2018, after his return from London following an interview with Al-Jazeera in which he criticized the rule of current President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and called for a boycott of the elections that took place in March 2018, which El-Sisi won without any competition. He was arrested along with 5 of his assistants from the "Strong Egypt" party, which he established following his split from the Muslim Brotherhood, Abul-Fotouh.

After seizing his property, the Egyptian Public Prosecutor decided on June 20, 2021 to extend the detention of Aboul Fotouh on charges of “spreading false news that would harm the country’s reputation,” because he denounced the “lack of credibility” of the March 2018 presidential elections that were in the process of being prepared at the time. , calling for a boycott.

Since his arrest, the authorities have continued to imprison the Egyptian politician in solitary confinement, and have not responded to the demands of his family and lawyers for his release, despite his many health crises.

It is noteworthy that Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh - born in Cairo on October 15, 1950 - was one of the most prominent leaders of the Islamic student movement, and gained popularity when he was head of the Student Union at Cairo University, after his criticism of former President Anwar Sadat in his presence during 1975, where He was blamed, during a well-known discussion, for being behind the prohibition of preacher Sheikh Muhammad Al-Ghazali from speaking.

Mahmoud Ezzat

As for Ezzat, Egyptian security arrested him last August during a raid on a residential apartment in the Fifth Settlement area (east of Cairo), knowing that he has been serving as the acting guide of the Muslim Brotherhood since the arrest of the guide Mohamed Badie in August 2013.

After Ezzat's arrest last year, the group chose Ibrahim Mounir, who lives outside Egypt, as acting guide.

Since the overthrow of Morsi, who was the first elected civilian president in Egypt, the Egyptian authorities have continued campaigns of prosecution targeting leaders and cadres of the group and accusing them of terrorism-related charges, which the group denies and considers it persecution.

According to the French Press Agency, human rights organizations estimate the number of political prisoners in Egypt at about 60,000, but Sisi constantly denies this.

Dr. Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, a prominent presidential candidate, sentenced to 15 years in prison!


Why 15 years?

Did he kill Clipper?!

— Selim Azzouz (@selimazouz1) May 29, 2022

Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh was sentenced to 15 years in prison, and Muhammad al-Qassas and Moaz al-Sharqawi to 10 years in prison!


Are you not intending to be satisfied at all?

Should they all be buried inside your prisons?!

It is not normal, I swear to God, the level of brutality that we have to deal with on a daily basis

— Mona Seif (@Monasosh) May 29, 2022

This is the #national_dialogue they are calling for..a dialogue over the remains and ages that gave birth and the most honorable of those who gave birth to Egypt!!# Abdel-Moneim_Abu_Fotouh# Mahmoud_Ezzat https://t.co/ZZ3JvYtxWD

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Tariq Al Zomor (@drtarekelzomor) May 29, 2022

Despite the fact that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi gave the green light to the so-called “national dialogue,” Dr. Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, head of the Strong Egypt Party, was sentenced today to 15 years in prison, and his deputy, Mohamed al-Qassas, to 10 years in prison, in Case No. 440 of 2018 Supreme State Security Restriction.

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— We Record (@WeRecordAR) May 29, 2022

Today, the ruling is in an unjust case after years of imprisonment for Dr. Abdel Moneim or Al-Fotouh and Muhammad Al-Qassas.


Abu al-Fotouh, retribution and thousands of innocent people, they are the ones who deserve support and sympathy.


I hate and against all those who participated in their detention and deprivation of their freedom or silence over their oppression,


and any age in the gear of the machine of oppression that we suffer from deserves punishment.

— Gamal Eid (@gamaleid) May 29, 2022