Egypt's presidential spokesperson, Alaa Yussef said Wednesday in a statement some news websites had misunderstood President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's statements to the BBC over the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group and death sentences against MB senior figures. Asked on the MB, Sisi said the group's members are Egyptian citizens but their involvement in terror over the past two years had taken them out of the political scene, indicating "the Egyptian people are the only side to determine whether the MBs have a political role in the future". Regarding the death sentences, Sisi said most of them were delivered in absentia, adding they would be abolished once the fugitives handed themselves over to authorities to be retried. Sisi gave Tuesday an interview to the BBC over Egypt's political and economic scene as well as the official stance towards the now outlawed MB.
