Egypt’s parliament is set to discuss a draft law in the coming weeks aimed at dismissing individuals suspected of supporting or sympathising with the Muslim Brotherhood opposition group, a member of parliament has revealed.

The Egyptian National Action Group (ENAG), which includes opposition figures at home and abroad, called in a statement on the United Nations and the UN Security Council to put an end to politicised executions against oppositionists in Egypt.

Egypt is inventorying Muslim Brotherhood assets in Sinai as the judiciary considers a lawsuit for the confiscation of real estate including houses, land and farms owned by Brotherhood leaders.

Egyptian authorities executed nine people Monday over the storming of a police station in 2013 in which 13 policemen were killed, a security source said.

Egypt’s exiled Muslim Brotherhood movement is planning to hold elections for its governing body, sources from the movement have told the Arabic news website Arabi 21.

Egyptian authorities will release 1,686 prisoners to mark Ramadan, including members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood movement, according to reports.

Fear is reigning among Egypt’s Christians following the killing of a coreligionist by a branch of the Islamic State (IS) in northern Sinai.

Turkey’s foreign minister said Ankara would have opposed Egypt’s 2013 coup regardless of who had been in power.

Legislators and their families are getting vaccinated and are being allowed to choose between the AstraZeneca and Sinopharm vaccines despite the Health Ministry’s repeated statements that people will have no say in which shots they receive.

Egypt’s interior ministry said Monday it killed three “terrorist elements” in the Sinai Peninsula suspected of involvement in the execution of a Coptic Christian claimed by an Islamic State-affiliated group.