MOHAMMED EZZAT IS THE NEW MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD’S SUPREME GUIDE
Cairo , 14 Syawal 1434/21 Agustus 2013 (MINA) – The Muslim Brotherhood has appointed a new supreme guide after Mohammed Badie, its previous leader, was arrested by Egyptian police tipped off as to his hiding place.
Mohammed Ezzat was put in charge, as the Egyptian military forces launched a campaign against the movement.
“Arresting Mohammed Badie makes us more adamant to support Morsi,” said Ezzat, according to Alresalah.ps report quoted by Mi’raj News Agency (MINA).
Badie was moved from an apartment in Nasir city, east of Cairo to prison.
Mahmoud Ezzat was born in August 1944 in Cairo. He is a lecturer at the faculty of medicine at al-Zaqazeeq University.
The interior ministry triumphantly released pictures of a disconsolate-looking Mr Badie, 70, sitting on a sofa beside a table as the police prepared to take him away in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
But the Brotherhood declared that Mr Badie was just “one individual” and that his arrest would make no difference to their campaign against the new military-backed rulers.
“Mahmoud Ezzat, deputy leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, will assume the role of supreme guide of the group on a temporary basis after the security forces of the bloody military coup arrested supreme guide Mohamed Badie,” the website of the Brotherhood’s political front, the Freedom and Justice Party, said.
At a press conference, the Brotherhood-led “National Coalition for Legitimacy” said there would now be a campaign of civil disobedience and a boycott of state-linked companies and media.
Mr Ezzat is one of a number of deputy leaders of the Brotherhood. He is part of a faction led by the most powerful deputy, and the organisation’s chief strategist, Khairat al-Shater, who is already under arrest.(T/P02/E1)
Mi’raj News Agency (MINA)
