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Egypt alliance slams court’s banning of Brotherhood

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The Egyptian Anti-Coup Alliance has slammed a court decision to dissolve the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), Press TV reports.

In a statement, the alliance said the ruling by the Supreme Administrative Court shows that the military-backed government in Cairo is trying to dominate the country’s upcoming parliamentary elections.

“There is a main hand that has been playing with the pieces in the last three years, and this hand is the hand of the army, the Egyptian army, which has been in control of the country ever since the expulsion of the king,” political analyst Mostafa Abbas told Press TV.

The Anti-Coup Alliance also said the decision, which was made on August 9, was a move by the military rulers to eventually ban all opposition parties in Egypt in order to gain full control.

Meanwhile, Egyptian law experts say as many as 10 other parties belonging to the Anti-Coup Alliance are also threatened by the court ruling.

In July 2013, Egypt’s first democratically-elected president, Mohamed Morsi, was toppled in a military coup led by Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the country’s current president and then army commander.

Following the ouster of Brotherhood-affiliated Morsi, Egypt witnessed anti-government protests with continuous clashes between security forces and the supporters of the ousted president.

Sisi is accused of leading the suppression of Muslim Brotherhood supporters as hundreds of them have been killed in clashes with Egyptian security forces.

Death sentences have been handed to some 200 people in mass trials, including Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie, although none of the sentences have been carried out so far.

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