Brotherhood releases lengthy statement condemning violence - Ahram Online
8th of April
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Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood issued a lengthy statement Tuesday evening in which it condemned violence and claimed the group had adhered to strictly peaceful means of struggle throughout its history – distancing itself from anyone who acted otherwise.
“[The Brotherhood’s] activity and struggle against corruption and despotism is based on absolute peacefulness and the rejection of violence in all its forms and putting up with the harm, detentions, killing, torture and oppression [the group] suffers,” read the statement, which was written by the Brotherhood’s Secretary General Mahmoud Hussein.
The Brotherhood was designated a terrorist organisation by Egyptian authorities last December, despite the group’s repeated denial of any links to attacks against Egyptian police and army forces after the ouster of Brotherhood president Mohamed Morsi in July.
“Thousands of Egyptians were killed and the Brotherhood stood at the centre of the killings, but none of them raised a weapon against their murderers,” the statement said.