Egypt moves the Brotherhood from a five-year listing to a permanent one

The decision was published in Al-Waqa’i Al-Masriya, the legal edition of the Egyptian gazette, in issue 248 supplement (A), dated 8 November 2026, and took effect on publication. Two numbered decisions carry it: Decision No. 1 of 2026 covers entities and terminates the effect of temporary listing decision No. 6 of 2022; Decision No. 7 of 2026 covers individuals and terminates temporary decision No. 13 of 2022. Both 2022 decisions had themselves been published on 3 January 2023. Youm7 reports the decisions were issued under Law No. 8 of 2015 regulating terrorist-entity and terrorist lists, through the Public Prosecution’s Office for the Regulation of Terrorist Entities and Terrorists Lists. The National reports the notice cites a Cairo Criminal Court judgment of May 2023 and a Court of Cassation ruling of April 2026 — the chain that makes the convictions final and non-appealable.

Three men were permanently added to the separate individuals list following those final convictions: Abdel Rahman Hassan Mohamed Melegy, Gamal Abdel Hamid Gomaa Abdel Hamid, and Osama Ibrahim Mohamed Mostafa al-Rakh. The National notes explicitly that listing an organisation and listing individuals are distinct legal measures. Youm7 enumerates the consequences that attach on publication — withdrawal, cancellation or refusal of a passport; loss of the good-standing condition required for public, parliamentary or local office; a bar on public-sector appointment or contracting; suspension from work on half pay; and the freezing of funds and assets. Egypt first declared the Brotherhood a terrorist organisation in December 2013, months after the military removed President Mohamed Morsi. Egyptian Streets notes that as recently as December 2025 a court renewed the designation for a further five years.

Assessment: The reporting hole is in Youm7’s own headline, which sets the “final” framing against a statute it says fixes listing terms at five years. How a listing becomes permanent rather than renewable under Law 8/2015 is a question no outlet in the day’s coverage answered, and readers should treat “permanent” as the prosecution’s characterisation until the gazette text is read. No Guidance Bureau or London-office response surfaced; the Brotherhood-aligned Freedom and Justice Gate’s piece consists mainly of social-media reaction and is not evidence of an organisational position. The practical effect is external: Cairo now offers foreign governments weighing their own listings a judicially closed Egyptian record rather than a renewable administrative one.