The Muslim Brotherhood's lawyer Abdel Moneim Abdel Maqsoud (Photo: Al-Ahram)
Muslim Brotherhood lawyer Abdel-Moneim Abdel-Maqsoud was released in the early hours of Tuesday pending trial.
Abdel-Maqsoud was arrested in July of 2013 when he went to prison to defend a number of jailed Brotherhood leaders. He was charged with inciting violence and killing in clashes that took place in Giza’s Bein El-Sarayat district between opponents and supporters of the Islamist group shortly after the ouster of Mohamed Morsi in the summer of 2013.
Abdel-Maqsoud is not the first to be released in the same case. A number of Morsi supporters charged in the Bein El-Sarayat case have been released recently, including Brotherhood leader Helmi El-Gazzar and former Islamist MP Mohamed El-Omda.
El-Omda proposed upon his release an initiative to build bridges between the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood and the current regime.
Since Morsi’s ouster in July, 2013 thousands of Morsi loyalists have been arrested, including his group’s top leaders, and hundreds killed in clashes with security forces.
Hundreds of Morsi loyalists and Brotherhood members, including many in the top echelons of the group, have received sentences on convictions of murder and inciting violence since the ouster of the Islamist president.
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