Egypt makes the Brotherhood’s terror listing permanent, then a court adds dozens more names

Egypt’s Public Prosecution permanently placed the Muslim Brotherhood on the national list of terrorist entities in a decision published in the Official Gazette on Monday 9 November, according to Ahram Online, The National, Asharq Al-Awsat and Egyptian Streets. The decision came from the Office for Regulating Lists of Terrorist Entities and Terrorists and added three men to the individuals list after final, non-appealable convictions: Abdel-Rahman Hassan Mohamed Meligy, Gamal Abdel-Hamid Gomaa Abdel-Hamid and Osama Ibrahim Mohamed Mostafa El-Rakh, described by Al Arabiya as leaders of the group. Youm7 reported the gazette carried Decision No. 1 of 2026 on terrorist entities and Decision No. 7 of 2026 on terrorists, issued under Law No. 8 of 2015. The publication date is not clean: Misr E’laan places the text in issue No. 248, supplement (A), dated 8 November, and Al-Quds says the Sunday issue.

The National was careful about what changed, reporting that the measure “changes the legal basis and duration of its listing, rather than imposing a new ban” — Egypt designated the Brotherhood in December 2013, months after the army removed Mohamed Morsi, and the new decision replaces a temporary listing issued in 2022. The National also noted that listing an organisation and listing individuals are separate acts, so the designation does not automatically place every associated person on the individuals list. Egyptian Streets described the practical effect as ending the possibility that the listing expires under earlier time-limited rulings. Youm7’s explainer of Law 8/2015 lists the consequences as passport withdrawal or refusal, loss of the good-reputation condition for public, parliamentary or local office, a bar on public-sector appointment or contracting, suspension on half pay, and asset freezes.

One day later, Youm7 reported that the Cairo Criminal Court had placed 35 entities and 36 individuals on the terrorist lists for five years in case No. 11108 of 2026, Supreme State Security registry, published in Al-Waqa’i al-Misriyya issue No. 250, supplement, dated Tuesday 10 November. That report is single-sourced in this sweep, to a pro-government Cairo daily, and Youm7’s own framing — that the ruling reaches Brotherhood institutions and leaderships in Europe — could not be checked against a roster of the 35 entities. No source reached here explains the relationship between the prosecution’s permanent listing and the court’s five-year one, two instruments from two different organs published in consecutive gazette issues within 48 hours.

Assessment: Permanence is a signal, not a new power. Nothing the Egyptian state could do to the Brotherhood on Sunday was unavailable on Monday; what the decision removes is an expiry date, and with it the small annual question of whether a listing will be renewed. The audience is partly foreign. Cairo has spent 2026 watching the European Parliament, the French National Assembly and now a US state adopt its vocabulary, and a designation with no sunset is easier to cite in someone else’s file. Treat the court listing of 10 November as unconfirmed until the roster surfaces. If European-registered bodies are genuinely on it, that is the week’s real story and it has not yet been reported out.