Kuwait Hands Muslim Brotherhood-Linked Militants to Egypt

Date: 15 July 2019 - 21:48

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DUBAI (Dispatches) – Kuwait has handed over to Egyptian authorities eight members of a militant cell arrested on its territory and who it said were linked to the Muslim Brotherhood group, state news agency KUNA reported.
Kuwait’s interior ministry said the Egyptians belonged to a "terrorist” cell linked to the Brotherhood. They had fled to Kuwait after being sentenced by Egyptian authorities to jail terms of up to 15 years, it said.
Kuwait has not specified the circumstances of their sentencing, and there has been no official comment on the case from Egyptian judicial authorities either.
The men were returned under the terms of bilateral agreements, KUNA quoted a senior foreign ministry official as saying late on Sunday. The interior ministry said investigations were ongoing to discover other cell members.
Egypt banned the group in 2013 after late Muslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Mursi, the first democratically elected head of state in Egypt’s modern history, was toppled by the military following widespread unrest.
Since then, Egyptian authorities have arrested tens of thousands of political opponents, according to human rights organizations.
The Brotherhood says it publicly renounced violence decades ago using peaceful means.