Cairo converts the Brotherhood’s terror listing from renewable to permanent, in print only

Egypt’s Public Prosecution, through its Office for the Regulation of Lists of Terrorist Entities and Terrorists, permanently listed the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist entity along with three individuals, in a notice taking effect on publication in Al-Waqa’i Al-Masriya, the government’s legal gazette, Issue No. 248, Supplement A, dated 8 November 2026. The notice cites a Cairo Criminal Court judgment from May 2023 and a Court of Cassation ruling issued in April this year. The consequences attached are travel bans, asset freezes and limits on holding public office. The National, which reported the move on 9 November, framed it as changing the legal basis and duration of the listing rather than imposing a new ban — the permanent listing replaces a temporary designation in force since December 2022. Ahram Online dated the gazette publication to Monday 9 November; the 8 November date is the defensible one.

The Brotherhood has been illegal in Egypt since December 2013, when it was declared a terrorist organisation months after the military removed President Mohamed Morsi. The designation has been renewed by court order repeatedly since, most recently in December 2025, when a court extended the classification for a further five years — eleven months before the prosecution decided renewal was no longer required. Asharq Al-Awsat placed the move after Washington’s January designations of the Brotherhood’s Egyptian, Jordanian and Lebanese chapters; that is the outlet’s sequencing, not a rationale Cairo stated. Egyptian Streets described it as arriving “amid increased international scrutiny,” also inference. As of compilation, no statement from the Brotherhood responding to the 8 November listing had appeared on its own channel, ikhwanweb.com, which in January carried the group’s “complete rejection” of the US move.

Assessment: Read the sourcing before the substance. Every account traces to two originals, Ahram Online and The National, both state-aligned or state-adjacent; no Reuters, AFP or AP copy surfaced, and nobody has published the gazette text. That is not evidence the listing is false — gazette notices are routine and dull — but it does mean the only version of this story in circulation is Cairo’s. The substantive point is administrative: removing the renewal clock removes the periodic moment at which a court must restate the case. A permanent listing is cheaper to maintain and harder to litigate against. Watch also for a second, larger list said to have appeared on 10 November; a single advocacy outlet has reported it and nobody else has.