Short profile of Terrorist Leader Mahmoud Ezzat: the Acting guide of MB
Acting guide of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood
group Mahmoud Ezzat was arrested, the Egyptian Interior Ministry announced on
Friday in a statement.
Ezzat is the MB’s current acting “murshid” (supreme
guide). He was born August 13, 1944 in Zaqaziq, Sharqia.
He joined the Muslim Brotherhood in 1962 while he
was a medicine student. In 1965, Ezzat was arrested and convicted to ten years
in prison. After being released 1974, he traveled to Sanaa, Yemen and then to
England. After his return, he was chosen as a high board member in Cairo’s
office.
Ezzat was later arrested several times, such as in
May 1993 in what was known then as “Salsabeel Case”, which aimed to empower all
of the MB members in state bodies.
In August 2013, Ezzat was selected as the Muslim
Brotherhood’s acting supreme guide.
After the June 30th Revolution, Ezzat was claimed to
have escaped to several European countries; however, in 2015, he issued a
statement affirming that the Muslim Brotherhood will not reconcile with the
Egyptian government.
