Cairo – Ashraf Abdel Hamid
Posted on: August 19, 2023: 01:49 AM GST Last updated: August 19, 2023: 02:01 AM GST
In a new video of him, Wajdi Ghoneim, the Brotherhood preacher sentenced to death in Egypt, attacked the Brotherhood and the Union of Muslim Scholars, because of their recent meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and their ignoring his invitation to attend the meeting, and not presenting the case of the Turkish authorities’ refusal to grant him residency or citizenship so far despite his survival. in the country since 2014.
Ghoneim said that the Union of Muslim Scholars invited some non-members to attend the meeting with the Turkish president, and he also spoke about immigrant matters and issues of refusing to grant some of them residency or citizenship, and they did not address his special problem and his stay in Turkey at risk of being arrested at any time due to the lack of residency or nationality with him. He added that what happened oppressed him, and made him raise his palms to the sky, seeking help from God after his brothers sold him – meaning the Brotherhood.
He also said that he has been living in Turkey for 9 years, and the authorities refused to grant him residency or citizenship, and he no longer knows what to do? He called on Ankara to find a solution to his problem.
Turkish refusal
A few weeks ago, after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won the presidency, the Turkish authorities refused to grant the Egyptian Brotherhood preacher Wajdi Ghoneim, who had been convicted of death, her nationality.
Ghoneim said in a video broadcast on the communication sites that he had applied for residency and citizenship 9 years ago until now, hoping that he would be allowed freedom of movement and access to treatment in Turkey, but he was surprised by the government’s refusal, hours before Erdogan’s victory was announced, noting He indicated that he was looking for a new country to take him to, after he could no longer live and reside in Turkey.
The Turkish President meets a delegation from the Union of Muslim Scholars – archive
The situation is repeated
Commenting on this, Dr. Amr Abdel Moneim, an expert in extremist movements, says that Wajdi Ghoneim was exposed to the same situation before with the Brotherhood, where he was arrested because of the Trade Union elections in 1994, and he was imprisoned in Tora Istikbal Prison and asked the group to transfer him to Al-Mazraa prison, so the group rejected his request and acquitted him. from him.
He adds that it happened during the days of the Brotherhood’s rule that Wajdi Ghoneim and his son once again sent appeals to the deposed President Muhammad Morsi, asking him to pardon him in one of the cases in which he was convicted during the days of former President Hosni Mubarak’s regime, and yet the Brotherhood ignored his calls.
Likewise, the Egyptian expert told Al-Arabiya.net that the most surprising and surprising thing is that the person who applied to the group and asked President Morsi to pardon Wajdi Ghoneim was Talal Al-Ansari, the first defendant in the military technical case in 1974, as he had a close relationship with him and the founder of the movement, Saleh Sariya.
Meeting with Erdogan
The Turkish presidency announced a few days ago that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met a delegation from the Union of Muslim Scholars, which included more than 20 people from different countries of the world.
Dr. Ali Al-Qara Daghi, Secretary General of the Union of Muslim Scholars, who was part of the delegation that met Erdogan, revealed that the Turkish president allocated a direct line for the delegation in order to communicate with the Presidency of the Republic in the event of any transgressions affecting immigrants – meaning the Brotherhood, specifically from Egypt and Syria.
Members of the Union of Muslim Scholars during their meeting with Erdogan
And he continued on his Twitter page, that during the meeting, which lasted for two hours, issues related to the situation of immigrants and foreigners and the abuses that affect them in the recent period by some police and officials of official departments were raised, adding that the delegation urged President Erdogan on the need to enact strict laws against hate speech. Racism and accountability for anyone who uses this language, whether by Turks or Arabs.
The Secretary of the Union of Muslim Scholars said that Erdogan informed the delegation of Muslim scholars that he had contacted the Minister of Interior, Ali Yerli Kaya, and asked him to take the necessary measures to prevent unwanted abuses against immigrants, who are intended to be members of the Brotherhood.
terrorist acts
It is noteworthy that the Muslim Brotherhood preacher Wajdi Ghoneim was convicted of death by the Cairo Criminal Court in 2017, and some of his co-defendants are members of the Brotherhood on charges of establishing a cell called the “Wajdi Ghoneim Cell” to commit terrorist acts and bombings in Egypt.
The Egyptian Public Prosecution charged the fugitive preacher and others with him with the fact that, from 2013 to October 2015, they established a group that is against the law, the purpose of which is to call for disrupting the provisions of the constitution and laws, preventing state institutions and public authorities from carrying out their work, attacking the personal freedom of citizens, and harming national unity and social peace. .
The prosecution also confirmed that the first accused, a preacher, assumed the leadership of the group that calls for the ruler to be atonement and the legitimacy of rebelling against him, to change the system of government by force, and to sanction the blood of Christians and their places of worship.
Deportation.. and incitement
Wajdi Ghoneim, whose full name is Wajdi Abd al-Hamid Muhammad Ghoneim, was born on February 8, 1951 in Alexandria Governorate, and one of the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood.
He was deported from Bahrain in 2008 because of his position on Kuwait in the Iraq war, and he traveled to several countries, including England, from which he was expelled and prevented from entering again on charges of incitement to terrorism.
He was detained for several years in Egyptian prisons, as well as in Canada, America, Switzerland, South Africa and Yemen.
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2023-08-18 21:49:00
