Egypt gazettes a permanent Brotherhood listing four days after a court renewed it for five years

Egypt’s Public Prosecution, through its Office for Regulating Lists of Terrorist Entities and Terrorists, published two instruments in Al-Waqa’i al-Masriyya, issue No. 248 supplement (A), dated 8 November 2026 and reported on Monday 9 November. Decision No. 1 of 2026 terminates the effect of temporary listing Decision No. 6 of 2022 and substitutes permanent inclusion of the Muslim Brotherhood on the terrorist entities list; Decision No. 7 of 2026 permanently adds three individuals to the terrorists list, one of whom Youm7 names as Abdel Rahman Hassan Mohamed Melegy. The cited basis is “أحكام قضائية نهائية وباتة بالإدانة” — final convictions no longer subject to appeal. That formula is the legally operative point: permanence is presented as deriving from exhausted appeals under Law No. 8 of 2015, not from a fresh executive act. Article 7 effects include prohibition of the entity, closure of premises, a ban on meetings, and the freezing of funds.

Four days earlier, on 4 November, the independent Egyptian legal-affairs tracker Zawia3 reported that the First Terrorism Circuit of the Cairo Criminal Court, presided over by Judge Mohamed El-Sayed El-Sherbiny with Judges Wael Omran and Ahmed Khalaf, had extended the Brotherhood’s listing — and that of 37 named individuals — for a further five years. The judges' names and the figure of 37 come from Zawia3 alone; we found no wire pickup. A five-year judicial renewal and a permanent prosecutorial listing are two different legal theories of the same outcome, and none of the mainstream coverage — Ahram Online, Asharq Al-Awsat, The National, Egyptian Streets, CairoScene, Xinhua’s Arabic service, which attributes its account to Al-Qahera News — reconciled them. Egypt first declared the group a terrorist organisation in December 2013; Egyptian Streets reports a court renewed that designation for five years as recently as December 2025.

Assessment: Read the sequencing, not the adjective. “Permanent” here is an administrative consolidation of a status Egypt has renewed on a clock since 2013, and the two tracks running four days apart suggest parallel case files rather than a single decisive turn. The external timing is the more interesting variable: Washington designated the Egyptian branch an SDGT in January, Cairo welcomed it, and a gazette entry that forecloses the renewal cycle is cheap domestically and useful abroad. Treat the Egyptian Gazette’s line that “it is not a political decision to ban the group” as unverified framing until the full text is read. The checkable gap is whether the court renewal survives the gazette.