Cairo’s Second Criminal Circuit ordered that thirty‑five Muslim organisations operating across Europe and thirty‑six persons be placed on Egypt’s terrorism list for five years, the court announced on Tuesday, 10 November. The ruling appeared in the supplement of Issue No. 250 of the official gazette Al‑Waqa’i Al‑Masriyya.
Among the groups named are the Council of European Muslims and its national branches, Muslims of France, the Muslim Association of Britain, the Swiss Muslim League and the German Islamic Community. The list also includes Islamic Associations in Sweden, Italy, Spain, Ireland, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Türkiye and Albania, as well as bodies such as the Council of Muslims of Ukraine, the Muslim League of Belgium and the Union of Islamic Organisations in Russia.
Seven Europe‑wide institutions face the same designation: the European Council for Fatwa and Research, the European Council of Imams, the European Council for the Muslim Family, the European Council for the Holy Quran, the European Council for Muslim Women, the European Islamic Students Forum and the European Institute of Human Sciences with its branches.
British‑Iraqi activist Anas Osama Tawfiq al‑Tikriti, founder and chief executive of the Cordoba Foundation, is one of the thirty‑six individuals listed. Speaking to The New Arab, al‑Tikriti said Egyptian authorities never contacted him before his name appeared in the gazette and suggested his criticism of authoritarian regimes may have prompted the move. The decision follows Egypt’s permanent ban on the Muslim Brotherhood and a recent European Parliament resolution urging tighter scrutiny of organisations suspected of Brotherhood links.
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