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Egypt's Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie 'suffers heart attack' in jail
Source: The Guardian
Egypt's Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie 'suffers heart attack' in jail
Patrick Kingsley in Cairo
theguardian.com, Saturday 31 August 2013 21.14 BST
The spiritual leader of Mohamed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood has suffered a non-fatal heart attack in jail, the country's state newspaper has reported.
Mohamed Badie, the Brotherhood's 70-year-old Murshid − or supreme guide − is one of hundreds of senior Brotherhood officials currently detained in a brutal state crackdown on the organisation that began on 3 July, the day Morsi was ousted as Egyptian president.
State broadsheet al-Ahram reported on Saturday that Badie had suffered a cardiac arrest while in prison, but that he has since recovered. State news agency MENA denied a report that Badie had died, while Brotherhood spokesmen did not respond to immediate requests about his health.
Sherief Abuel Magd, a longtime Muslim Brotherhood member and a friend of Badie's, said he could not confirm the report. But he claimed that any injury to the group's leader would not impede the Brotherhood's long-term future.
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Patrick Kingsley in Cairo
theguardian.com, Saturday 31 August 2013 21.14 BST
The spiritual leader of Mohamed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood has suffered a non-fatal heart attack in jail, the country's state newspaper has reported.
Mohamed Badie, the Brotherhood's 70-year-old Murshid − or supreme guide − is one of hundreds of senior Brotherhood officials currently detained in a brutal state crackdown on the organisation that began on 3 July, the day Morsi was ousted as Egyptian president.
State broadsheet al-Ahram reported on Saturday that Badie had suffered a cardiac arrest while in prison, but that he has since recovered. State news agency MENA denied a report that Badie had died, while Brotherhood spokesmen did not respond to immediate requests about his health.
Sherief Abuel Magd, a longtime Muslim Brotherhood member and a friend of Badie's, said he could not confirm the report. But he claimed that any injury to the group's leader would not impede the Brotherhood's long-term future.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/31/muslim-brotherhood-mohamed-badie-heart-attack