Egypt blacklists members of ‘Ansar Beit Al Maqdis’ terrorist group

CAIRO - 16 February 2023: The Egyptian authorities put 149 members of the banned group Muslim Brotherhood on the terrorist list for five years in accordance with the Law of Regulating Terrorist Entities and Terrorists.

The members are facing charges of belonging to the terrorist group “Ansar Beit Al Maqdis” and the decision of blacklisting was published on Thursday in the official gazette “Al Waqaie Al Masryia” to intact on the following day.

The convicts were charged with establishing a terrorist group “Ansar Beit Al Maqdis” which embraces extremist ideology under the pretext of not applying Islamic law.

They were charged with committing premeditated murder of police officers and personnel, civilians, and children, sabotaging and damaging public facilities, natural gag pipelines, and gas stations, and possessing and using explosives.

On February 12, 2023: An Egyptian court sentenced 6 defendants to 15 years in prison for charges with affiliation to a terrorist group in a case dubbed in media as “ISIS Imbaba Cell.”

The convicts are facing charges with targeting security checkpoints in Ramses – downtown Cairo- and outside the Al Ahly Bank branch in Mohandeseen, Cairo, besides financing a terrorist group, and possessing explosives.

On January 13, 2023, a Cairo terrorist court handed down 7 defendants sentences of life imprisonment and three others to 15 years in prison for charges of belonging to the Islamic State terrorist group (ISIS) in a case dubbed in media as “ISIS, Bulaq.”

Meanwhile, another defender was acquitted of the same charges, the court ruled.

On May 5, 2022, an Egyptian court, presided by Judge Mohamed Sherine Fahmy, sentenced four people to life imprisonment, a woman to three years in prison, and acquitted three others in the case known as “Spying for Daesh."

The criminal court put three convicts on the terrorist lists, charging them with collaborating with the terrorist organization “ISIS”.