Mohamed Elbeltagy ( ar, محمد البلتاجي; born 1963) is an Egyptian physician and

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politician. He was a Member of Parliament from 2005 to 2010, and is currently the general secretary of the Freedom and Justice Party.

Biography

He was on board the ''

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'' during the 2010

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. After the

2013 Egyptian coup d'état The 2013 Egyptian coup d'etat took place on 3 July 2013. Egyptian army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi led a coalition to remove the democratically elected President of Egypt, Mohamed Morsi, from power and suspended the Egyptian constitut ...

, prosecutors ordered Elbeltagy's arrest on 10 July 2013. On 14 July 2013 Egypt's military-appointed prosecutor general

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ordered Elbeltagy's assets to be frozen. Mohamed Elbeltagy's 17-year-old daughter Asmaa Elbeltagy was killed when the Egyptian security forces stormed two protest camps occupied by supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi in Cairo. She was shot in the back and chest. Elbeltagy was arrested on 29 August 2013 by security forces in Giza. On 29 October 2013, a three-judge panel at Cairo Criminal Court stepped down from the proceedings, citing "uneasiness" over the trial. On 7 December 2013, Cairo's Criminal Court refused to return a verdict and recused itself in a case involving Elbeltagy and Safwat Hegazi citing "embarrassment" as a reason for its decision. On 11 December 2013, a second panel of judges withdrew from the trial. On 21 April 2015, a guilty verdict was returned against ELbeltagy over violence against protesters, and he was sentenced along with former President

Mohamed Morsi Mohamed Mohamed Morsi Eissa al-AyyatThe spellings of his first and last names vary. survey of 14 news organizations plus Wikipedia in July 2012www.alertnet.org article
1963 births Living people Members of the Parliament of Egypt Members of the Egyptian Constituent Assembly of 2012 Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood members Freedom and Justice Party (Egypt) politicians 20th-century Egyptian physicians 21st-century Egyptian physicians 20th-century Egyptian politicians 21st-century Egyptian politicians {{egypt-politician-stub