Mohammed Badie

Mohammed Badie
محمد بديع
Mohammed Badie in 2011
8th General Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt
In office
16 January 2010 – 3 July 2013
Preceded byMohammed Mahdi Akef
Personal details
Born (1943-08-07) 7 August 1943 (age 81)
El Mahalla El Kubra, Egypt
ChildrenAmmar
and three others
Alma materCairo University

Mohammed Badie (Arabic: محمد بديع Muḥammad Badīʿ, IPA: [mæˈħæmmæd bæˈdiːʕ]; born 7 August 1943) is the eighth Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood.[1]

He has been heading the Egyptian branch of the international Muslim Brotherhood organization since 2010. Before becoming the general guide, Badie had been a member of the group's governing council, the Guidance Bureau, since 1996.

He was arrested by the Egyptian authorities on 20 August 2013, and Dr. Mahmoud Ezzat became the acting general guide of the Muslim Brotherhood.[2][3] Then after Dr. Mahmoud Ezzat was arrested on 28 August 2020, Ibrahim Munir became the acting general guide of the Muslim Brotherhood.[4][5] On 13 October 2021, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Consultative Assembly (Shoura) made a decision to withdraw confidence from Ibrahim Munir and relieve him of his responsibility in the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.[6][7] The assembly decided to assign an acting committee for general guide role and announced that in an official statement on 13 November 2021,[8][9] and later announced Dr. Mostafa Tolba as the committee's representative on 17 December 2021.[10] On 16 November 2022, the Assembly (Shoura) made a new decision to appoint Prof. Dr. Mahmoud Hussein as the acting general guide of the Muslim Brotherhood according to the general regulation, and Dr. Mostafa Tolba announced the decision by himself.[11][12][13]

On 28 April 2014, after an eight-minute trial[14] in which Badie could not present his defence, he was sentenced to death, along with 682 others who are allegedly Muslim Brotherhood supporters.[15] He was sentenced to life in prison on 15 September 2014,[16] and was sentenced to death on 11 April 2015, along with thirteen other senior Muslim Brotherhood members.[17] He received a sixth life sentence on 22 August 2015[18] and a seventh on 8 May 2017.[19]

Egypt's highest appeals court upheld the 2019 conviction of Badie on charges related to killing policemen and organising mass jail-breaks during Egypt's 2011 uprising, alongside those of 10 other leaders of the group.[20]

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  10. ^ "An important statement from the General Shura Council on the acting committee of the Brotherhood's General Guide". ikhwanonline.com. 17 December 2021.
  11. ^ "An Important Statement from the General Shura Council of the Muslim Brotherhood". www.ikhwanonline.com. 16 November 2022.
  12. ^ كلمة هامة من د. مصطفى طُلبة - الممثل الرسمي للجنة القائمة بعمل المرشد العام, 16 November 2022, retrieved 12 April 2023
  13. ^ "الإخوان المسلمون : مجلس الشورى العام يكلف د محمود حسين قائما بالأعمال". بوابة الحرية والعدالة (in Arabic). 16 November 2022. Retrieved 12 April 2023.
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  15. ^ "Egypt: Mass death sentence on Islamists passed". BBC News. 28 April 2014. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 12 July 2014.
  16. ^ "Badie and 14 MB leaders sentenced to life for Giza clashes". Mada Masr. 15 September 2014. Archived from the original on 15 September 2014. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
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  19. ^ "Muslim Brotherhood's Supreme Guide Mohammed Badie sentenced to life in prison". Al Arabiya. 8 May 2016. Archived from the original on 11 June 2017. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
  20. ^ "Egypt upholds life sentences for 10 Muslim Brotherhood figures". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 12 July 2021.