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An Egyptian court on Wednesday banned members of the Muslim Brotherhood from running in the upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections.
An anti-Brotherhood group, the Popular Front, filed a lawsuit against ``Brotherhoodisation of Egypt’’ in Cairo, prompting the judge to order the country's election commission to decline any candidacy requests from Brotherhood members.
The verdict comes a few weeks before the country's May presidential elections, the first since the ouster of former President Mohamed Morsi.
The Muslim Brotherhood was blacklisted by the interim government as ``a terrorist organisation’’.
Following Morsi's removal by the military last July, security forces have launched a massive crackdown on his loyalists.
Last August, the security disbanded two major pro-Morsi sit-ins in Cairo and Giza, which left around 1,000 dead and thousands more detained.
An anti-Brotherhood group, the Popular Front, filed a lawsuit against ``Brotherhoodisation of Egypt’’ in Cairo, prompting the judge to order the country's election commission to decline any candidacy requests from Brotherhood members.
The verdict comes a few weeks before the country's May presidential elections, the first since the ouster of former President Mohamed Morsi.
The Muslim Brotherhood was blacklisted by the interim government as ``a terrorist organisation’’.
Following Morsi's removal by the military last July, security forces have launched a massive crackdown on his loyalists.
Last August, the security disbanded two major pro-Morsi sit-ins in Cairo and Giza, which left around 1,000 dead and thousands more detained.
