Tag: Muslim Brotherhood

Former President of Egypt Mohammed Morsi dies in court while facing trial

Morsi, 67, had been in custody since his removal after mass protests.

June 18, 2019

Egypt sentences Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide to life

An Egyptian court on Sunday sentenced the Supreme Guide of Muslim Brotherhood Mohamed Badie to life imprisonment over storming a police station in the Upper Egypt’s province of Minya in 2013, the media reported. A total of 64 other members of the Islamic group were also handed life sentence, which is 25 years in jail...

September 23, 2018

Rahul Gandhi ignorant about India, so can’t understand Sangh: RSS

He is ignorant about India and its cultural ethos of 'Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam', which means the world is one family, Kumar claimed.

August 27, 2018

Overseas arrogance

Indeed curious is the wisdom that Rahul Gandhi spouts before an audience abroad. At home he confines himself to mundane politicking. Is it because before a foreign jaunt he gets his captive think-tank to identify what could sell, and then has speech-writers prepare him to cut an impressive figure, in contrast to his insipid presentations...

August 27, 2018

RSS is similar to Muslim Brotherhood: Rahul Gandhi in UK

Congress president Rahul Gandhi targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its ideological parent, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), in the United Kingdom on Friday.

August 24, 2018

Egypt sentences 75 Brotherhood members to death

The convicted were charged with causing deaths of policemen, attempted murder and vandalism, Xinhua news agency reported.

July 28, 2018

Represser re-elected

The TINA (There Is No Alternative) factor in electoral politics isn’t uniquely Indian, after all. Seven years after the Arab Spring, the spring of 2018 has verily reinforced the legacy of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt. It is the way history has worked in the Arab world generally ever since the starry-eyed upheavals of 2011. The...

April 3, 2018

Egypt court jails 65 Morsi loyalists up to 10 years

An Egyptian court sentenced on Saturday 65 loyalists of former Islamist President Mohamed Morsi up to 10 years in prison over inciting anti-state riots, protests and violence. Zagazig Criminal Court sentenced 44 defendants to 10 years in jail and 21 to two years while acquitting eight of the said charges, Xinhua reported. The convicts are...

February 18, 2018

32 Muslim Brotherhood supporters jailed for 10 years

An Egyptian court has sentenced 32 people related to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group to 10 years in prison over riot and vandalism charges, the media reported. Citing MENA news agency Xinhua reported on Monday that the defendants were accused of attempting to storm building of Qena governorate, south of Cairo, and setting fire to...

August 1, 2017

UAE calls for western monitoring of Qatar

The United Arab Emirates has called for a "western mechanism" to make Qatar abide by any agreement to end its alleged support for terrorism. UAE's Foreign Minister Anwar Gargash said its allies in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Bahrain did not trust Qatar. He was speaking in London during a visit intended to rally diplomatic support...

June 17, 2017

Egyptian football star placed on ‘terror’ list

The government accuses him of financing the Muslim Brotherhood, which was classified as a terrorist organisation at the end of 2013.

January 18, 2017