Egyptian Brotherhood overhauls structure

The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood is forming a new power structure to help it its leadership resident in other countries coordinate with members in Egypt, a source has told al-Araby al-Jadeed.

The Brotherhood, which is now banned in Egypt and considered a "terrorist group" by authorities, announced the move after the dismissal of the movement's secretary-general, Mahmoud Hussein.

A new position will be created to lead a committee that coordinates between the Brotherhood secretariats and its exiled members and supporters inside Egypt.

"The committee, which has already started the election process after meetings attended by a number of Brotherhood leaders in different cities, including Doha, Khartoum and Turkey, will take over many important issues that were previously handled by Hussein," a source told al-Araby.

"The most important of the issues are those of the Brotherhood abroad and the group's finances."

The committee is understood to be coordinating with a "transitional office" that runs the group in Egypt, and will be responsible for organising international events in a number of cities outside Egypt.

"The committee will also supervise the judicial file regarding the prosecution of coup leaders in Egypt, as well as the media file regarding a number of pro-legitimacy television channels," said our source.

The committee will also communicate with international human rights organisations to highlight cases of unlawful imprisonment.

It was also revealed that the Brotherhood have launched an initiative, led by its youth leaders, to communicate with representatives of revolutionary movements in Egypt.

A partnership between groups opposed to the presidency of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will be launched next month on the fourth anniversary of the 2011 revolution, when Hosni Mubarak was overthrown from the presidency.

This article is an edited translation from our Arabic edition.