Detained MB leader Essam El Erian dies due to health crisis

CAIRO - 13 August 2020: Detained member of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group Essam El Erian passed away on Thursday due a health crisis at Torha prison, southern Cairo, sources told Youm7.

 

Eirian and six other convicts were sentenced to life imprisonment in September 2019 for the charges of staging a prison break during the 2011 Revolution, which toppled the late President Hosni Muabark’s era.

 

Late President Mohamed Morsi, who was belonging to the banned group, was among the defendants of the same case. However the case was dropped against him due his death.

 

The defendants are charged with storming the Egyptian eastern borders, attacking security institution, plotting with Hamas and the international organization of the Muslim Brotherhood, and Hezbollah to create chaos in Egypt to bring down the authorities, as well as having the Iranian Revolutionary Guards train groups in Egypt to sabotage military targets in the country, including prisons.

 

No immediate comment or statement has been released  from the Egyptian Ministry of Interior yet.