Egypt seizes Brotherhood property in Sinai

A correspondent in Egypt

Apr 28, 2021

A relative of police officer Ibrahem Nasr, who was killed in an attack on two buses packed with Egyptian policemen near the border town of Rafah, in northern Sinai the previous day, points to graffiti on the wall of his home that reads in Arabic: " The Muslim Brotherhood are killers, terrorism of the Muslim Brotherhood," in Kafr el-Sawalmiya village in the Egyptian Delta region of Menufiya, Aug. 20, 2013. — MOHAMED EL-SHAHED/AFP via Getty Images

Egypt is inventorying Muslim Brotherhood assets in Sinai as the judiciary considers a lawsuit for the confiscation of real estate including houses, land and farms owned by Brotherhood leaders.

The government of Hisham Qandil, the prime minister who served under ousted Brotherhood-affiliated President Mohammed Morsi, had allowed these leaders to buy public and privately owned real estate in Sinai in the name of agricultural development.