MADRID Dec. 5 (EUROPA PRESS) –
An Egyptian court has extended for a period of five years the designation of the Islamist organization Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group, a list on which it was included following the 2013 military coup d’état, led by the now president, Abdel Fattá al Sisi. .
According to information collected by the newspaper ‘Al Ahram’, the court has also approved the inclusion of another 15 senior officials of the organization on the list of terrorists, amid the repression by the authorities against people linked or supposedly related to Muslim Brothers.
The 2013 coup d’état led to the overthrow of Mohamed Mursi, linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and who a year earlier had become the country’s first elected president following elections held after the fall of Hosni Mubarak’s regime during the ‘Spring’. Arab’.
The riot, led by Al Sisi, led to a campaign of repression against the Islamist organization and against politicians and activists opposed to Mubarak who were behind the massive mobilizations against his regime, in an effort by the former military leader to consolidate his power at the front. of the African country.
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