Exiled Egypt Muslim Brotherhood leader dies in London

The acting leader of Egypt's outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, Ibrahim Munir, died in London on Friday, the organisation said on its website.

Munir, 85, was twice jailed in Egypt in the 1950s and 1960s and has lived in exile for most of the last 40 years.

The once formidable Islamist movement won Egypt's first free presidential election in 2012, but was overthrown in a military coup a year later after mass protests.

It has been subject to a fierce crackdown by authorities since then, which has seen thousands of pro-democracy activists detained.

Many of its leaders and thousands of its supporters are in jail or have fled Egypt.

The group has been excluded from a political dialogue to be launched soon by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who as the army chief deposed the Brotherhood in 2013. 

(Reuters)