Draft:Ibrahim Munir
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| name | Ibrahim Munir |
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| religion | Islam |
Ibrahim Munir was the Deputy Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood and one of its most prominent members.
Overview
Ibrahim Munir was born on June 1, 1937, in Mansoura, Arab Republic of Egypt, and graduated from the Faculty of Arts at Cairo University in 1952. In 1965, during the presidency of the late Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, Munir was arrested alongside the group of Ibrahim Hussein Shadhli on charges of "reviving the Muslim Brotherhood" and sentenced to ten years in prison. After completing his prison term, Munir traveled to Kuwait, where he remained for five years, before moving to United Kingdom, where he sought asylum and established several Islamic centers.
Assumption of Leadership
In 1995, Munir became the Secretary-General of the Muslim Brotherhood's International Organization and its spokesperson in Europe. In the same year, he was appointed as a member of the Guidance Office abroad and as the general supervisor of the Risalat al-Ikhwan website. Following the arrest of Mahmoud Ezzat, the former acting General Guide based in Cairo, in late August 2020, Munir assumed the role of acting head of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Release from Prison
During the presidency of former Egyptian President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak, Munir was tried in 2009 in connection with International Organization Case No. 284 and sentenced to five years in prison. However, in August 2012, Mohamed Morsi, Egypt's first president following the revolution (the late President of Egypt), issued a pardon for him. During the current presidency of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, additional charges were brought against Munir. In September 2021, the Egyptian Prosecution Office referred Ibrahim Munir, Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, Dr. Mahmoud Ezzat, and 23 others in absentia to the State Security Criminal Court under Judicial Case No. 1059 of 2021.
Egyptian authorities accused them of leading a "terrorist group" between 1992 and 2018, both inside and outside Egypt, whose objective was to use force, violence, threats, and intimidation within the country to disrupt public order.