Hamas Movement mourned Mohammed Mahdi Akef a former supreme guide of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood who died in a Cairo hospital on Friday at the age of 89.
In a statement on Friday Hamas hailed the great role of Akef in defending Muslims’ issues and supporting the Palestinian Question and resistance. Hailing his positions and stances Hamas said “He was among the first leaders who defended Palestine”.
Aliya Mahdi Akef made the death announcement on Facebook saying “My father is in the care of Allah”.
Ten months before his death Akef had been transferred from jail to the hospital in Cairo after deterioration of his health Brotherhood lawyer Abdel Moneim Abdel Maqsud said. Akef would be buried later Friday he added.
Akef who was born in 1928 headed the Brotherhood from 2004 until 2010. He had been arrested and jailed in 2013 after the military overthrew Islamist president Mohamed Morsi and jailed his supporters and fellow Brotherhood members.
Akef was accused with a raft of “criminal” charges following the 2013 coup against Mohamed Morsi Egypt’s first democratically-elected president and a leading Muslim Brotherhood member.
