Commitee recommends MB dissolution
The Commissioner Authority of the State Council recommended that the Muslim Brotherhood be disbanded and its headquarters closed, reported on Monday the state-run news agency MENA.
The authority made the recommendation in a report to the council's Administrative Court.
The commissioner authority is a body within the council that weights in on every case before the court issues a final decision. While its recommendations are not binding, they often influence the ruling.
The Brotherhood gained NGO status on March 19, 2012. In its report, the authority asked the court to liquidate the MB's premises according to Articles 44 and 45 of Law 84/2002 dealing with NGOs, the German news agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) reported.
Prime Minister Hazem al-Beblawi had made the proposal in mid-August to Minister of Social Solidarity Ahmed al-Boraie and both said they would start studying the legal steps to disband the group. The proposal came in response to the violent dispersal of mass Brotherhood sit-ins in Cairo calling for the reinstatement of deposed President Mohamed Morsi.
On the heels of clashes that raged between Morsi's supporters and security forces across the country on "the Friday of Wrath," two days following the dispersal, Cabinet media advisor Ahmed Shawky declared that Egypt and the whole world stood witness to "atrocities" committed by the Muslim Brotherhood in their quest to return to power. He added that the security forces dealt with these "terrorist acts" with self-restraint.
Since Morsi’s ouster on July 3, hundreds of Brotherhood members have been detained, along with sweeping arrests of the group’s leading figures.
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