Verdict againt April 6 Movement shows Cairo’s 360-degree crackdown

On April 28, a Cairo court banned Egypt’s secular April 6 Youth Movement, a key supporter of the overthrow of former President Mohamed Morsi’s government in July 2013. Also on April 28, a different court in the southern province of Minya issued death sentences against the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and 682 people identified as Brotherhood supporters. To read an analysis at Monitor Global Outlook, the business intelligence unit of The Christian Science Monitor, please <click here>.

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Roshanak Taghavi

ROSHANAK TAGHAVI ( روشنک تقوی ) is a journalist who has reported from New York, Cairo, Tehran, Lima, Mumbai, Dubai, New Delhi, Nagpur and Washington, D.C. She has written on economics, politics and culture.

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