Muslim Brotherhood | Today's latest from Al Jazeera (original) (raw)
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- Human Rights Watch joins 50 other groups to call for release of Egyptian academic Salah Soltan, detained in Egypt.
- Turkey and Egypt are close to restoring full diplomatic relations that could have implications on the entire region.
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28:50 - Al-Qaradawi, who died on Monday aged 96, was a leading voice in the Muslim world, in religion and in politics.
- Sheikh Tamim’s visit comes less than two months after his government announced it would invest $5bn in Egypt.
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Eight of the 24 accused were tried in absentia in separate cases involving the killing of police officers.
![Earlier this year, Amnesty International slammed Egypt's 'significant spike' in recorded executions, which saw a more than threefold rise to 107 last year, from 32 in 2019 [File: Khaled Desouki/ AFP]](http://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/000_1OX2CJ.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
The group’s leader, Mohamed Badie, was among those convicted on charges related to Egypt’s 2011 uprising.
![A member of the Muslim Brotherhood waves his hand from a defendant's cage in a courtroom in Torah prison, southern Cairo, Egypt [File: Amr Nabil/AP Photo]](http://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/AP21109431703766.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
The Austrian authorities’ moves towards banning ‘political Islam’ and criminalising the Brotherhood are ill-conceived.
![A police officer stands guard in front of a Muslim cultural centre and mosque in Graz which was raided in a police operation on November 9, 2020 [File: AFP/Erwin Scheriau]](http://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/000_8UV9LX.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Court decision marks end of a trial linked to a mass killing by security forces at a sit-in in Cairo in 2013.
Court finds Mahmoud Ezzat, acting supreme guide of the country’s oldest Islamist organisation, guilty of ‘terror’ acts.
![Mahmoud Ezzat was sentenced on charges of inciting violence and supplying firearms during clashes outside the Muslim Brotherhood's headquarters in 2013, a judicial source says [File: Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters]](http://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2010-05-30T120000Z_1468904923_GM1E65U1HZ301_RTRMADP_3_EGYPT-ELECTION.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
The man, who appeared to be complaining about rampant government corruption, is being treated for burns, sources said.
Mahmoud Ezzat, the group’s acting leader, arrested in the capital Cairo, interior ministry says.
Acting Brotherhood leader Ezzat has already been handed two death sentences in absentia, as well as life imprisonment.
Essam el-Erian had complained of medical negligence in detention after being sentenced to several life sentences.
Zyad Elelaimy, a key figure of Egypt’s 2011 popular uprising, and Ramy Shaath, a prominent activist added to list.
