Cairo makes the Brotherhood listing permanent, then names 35 European bodies the next day

On Tuesday 10 November the Cairo Criminal Court (First Instance), Second Criminal Circuit sitting at Badr, ordered 35 entities and 36 individuals onto Egypt’s lists of terrorist entities and terrorists for five years in Case No. 11108 of 2026 of the Supreme State Security Prosecution registry, published the same day in Official Gazette Issue No. 250 (Supplement) under Listing Request No. 1 of 2026 for the entities and Decision No. 1 of 2026 for the individuals. The ruling originated with the state news agency MENA and was carried by Ahram Online, Al Jazeera Arabic, Anadolu, Asharq, Al-Shorouk, Youm7, El-Watan and Egypt Today. Entities named in reporting include the Council of European Muslims — the umbrella founded in 1989 and formerly known as the Federation of Islamic Organisations in Europe — “and its various branches,” Musulmans de France, Swiss, German, Swedish and Italian Muslim associations, and seven Europe-wide councils including the European Council for Fatwa and Research and the European Institute of Human Sciences. Named individuals include Anas al-Tikriti, Ibrahim el-Zayat, Hussein Halawa and Wissam al-Bardawil.

The day before, Egypt’s Public Prosecution, through its Office for the Regulation of Lists of Terrorist Entities and Terrorists, converted the Brotherhood’s time-limited designation into a permanent one, adding three men — Abdelrahman Hassan Mohamed Melegy, Gamal Abdelhamid Gomaa Abdelhamid and Osama Ibrahim Mohamed Mostafa El-Rakh — permanently to the terrorists list after final, non-appealable convictions. Most outlets date publication to Monday 9 November; the Egyptian site misrelaan cites Gazette Issue No. 248, Supplement (a), dated 8 November. The Brotherhood-aligned portal fj-p.com, the only source for the decision numbers, says Decision No. 1 of 2026 terminates the earlier temporary listing, Decision No. 6 of 2022. Egypt first declared the group a terrorist organisation in December 2013, months after the military removed President Mohamed Morsi; Egyptian Streets notes a court renewed the designation for a further five years as recently as December 2025. Permanence, not designation, is what changed. Al Arabiya summarised the statutory consequences: suspension of activities, closure of premises, asset freeze and a ban on membership, recruitment or displaying the group’s symbols.

Three limits belong on the European listing. It is a first-instance ruling and is appealable, as Al Jazeera Arabic makes explicit; the same report noted that as of 11 November none of the named European organisations or individuals had responded. Anas al-Tikriti, CEO and founder of the Cordoba Foundation, told The New Arab — an outlet editorially unsympathetic to Cairo — that his inclusion was “not in itself surprising,” and accused Egypt of seeking to silence Muslim political participation and dissent in Western countries. And the full roster of 35 entities is not independently established: Egypt Today and the aggregator europe-arabs.com each publish what they call the complete list and the two do not match in all particulars. One name is genuinely ambiguous in translation — الرابطة الإسلامية في بريطانيا has been rendered by Ahram Online as the Islamic Society of Britain and by Egypt Today and others as the Muslim Association of Britain, two different organisations.

Assessment: Egypt’s listing regime has operative teeth only inside Egyptian jurisdiction — asset freezes and closures reach premises in Cairo, not offices in Brussels or Birmingham. What a court in Badr exports is a document European interior ministries, banks and parliamentary committees can cite without having built the case themselves. Watch for that laundering effect rather than for direct legal consequences. Note too the tension inside the designating coalition: the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, the think tank of Germany’s governing centre-right, published a paper on 11 November arguing the movement is decentralised and adaptive — which is, read closely, an argument that a single designation cannot reach the thing being described. Treat the prosecution’s line that this is “not a political decision” as a framing choice, not a finding.