![Mahmoud Ezzat, the Muslim Brotherhood‘s acting general guide [Youtube screen grab/Aljazeera]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AF-%D8%B9%D8%B2%D8%AA.jpg?fit=1199%2C800&ssl=1)
An Egyptian court yesterday ordered a retrial of a former acting general guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mahmoud Ezzat, on charges of spying for the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, Anadolu reported.
State-owned Akhbar Al-Youm newspaper said Ezzat appeared at the first session of the retrial in a court at the Tora Courts Complex in Cairo on charges of allegedly collaborating with Hamas.
In June 2015, the Cairo Criminal Court sentenced 20 leaders and members of the Muslim Brotherhood to life in prison, including the group’s General Guide Mohamed Badie, and sentenced others to death by hanging including Ezzat, deputy guide, Khairat Al-Shater, and 13 others in the same case.
The defendants had been accused of collaborating with Hamas and the Lebanese Hezbollah to cause chaos to bring down the Egyptian government and its institutions, commit hostile and military acts inside the country and break into prisons.
READ: Egypt sentences Muslim Brotherhood acting leader to life