Saturday, September 07, 2013

Egyptian Government Dissolves Muslim Brotherhood’s Official Legal Status

Obama's Dreams Going Up In Smoke?
Egypt’s army-backed government has dissolved the Muslim Brotherhood as a registered non-governmental organization, the state-run Al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Friday, pressing a crackdown on deposed President Mohamed Morsi’s movement.   
The decision applies to the NGO registered by the Brotherhood in March in response to a lawsuit that argued the group had no legal status and marks a legal challenge to Morsi’s movement as the police round up its leaders across the country. 
“The minister’s decision has in fact been issued but it will be announced at the start of next week in a press conference,” Al-Akhbar quoted Hany Mahana, spokesman for the minister of social solidarity, as saying. However, Arabic-language Sky News published a report in which the Egyptian government denied the report of the NGO’s disbandment. 
After veteran autocrat Hosni Mubarak was overthrown in 2011, the Brotherhood won parliamentary and presidential elections. The army deposed Morsi on July 3 in response to mass protests against his rule. 
The authorities are mounting the harshest crackdown on the Brotherhood in decades, killing hundreds of Mursi’s supporters and arresting many of its leaders on charges of inciting violence. There has so far been no attempt to ban its political wing, the Freedom and Justice Party.

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