Egyptian authorities decided Tuesday to freeze properties and funds of 26 leaders of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood (MB), chairman of the inventory commission, Chancellor Ezzat Khamis said, Al-Bawaba news reported. Khamis explained that the decision depends on the investigations' results carried out by Egypt's Homeland Security which approved that the suspected leaders had illegally funded terrorist acts in favor of MB. The government has frozen assets of 1252 MB members, most of them from Supreme Guidance Bureau and the International Brotherhood Organization on July 14. The decision included 103 schools and 111 associations. In September 2013, the Cairo Court for Urgent Matters ruled to ban all activities of the Muslim Brotherhood, freeze its funds, and form a commission to manage the group's assets so that no money could be used to fund terror attacks against citizens and governmental buildings. The Muslim brotherhood was ousted from power in July 2013 following a popular uprising against their regime on June 30. Islamist president Mohamed Morsi was arrested and placed in jail alongside other MB leaders, where they face charges of corruption and murdering peaceful protesters.
