Hudeibi dies at 83rd old

News reports in Cairo said that the general guide of Ikhwan al-Muslimin ( Muslim Brothers) in Egypt, consultant Mamoun al-Huseibi died today at dawn in his house in Cairo.

He was earlier admitted to one hospital in Cairo, and died immediately as he returned back home following medical tests.

Al-Hudeibi was born on May 28, 1921 to his father, Hassan al-Hudeibi, the second Murshid ( guide) for the Muslim brothers group ( 1950- 1973). He graduated from the faculty of law, and he was the chairman of Gaza court in 1956.

Al-Hudeibi took part in the people's resistance operations during the tripartite aggression against Egypt in 1956, and he was arrested by the Israeli occupation army. He later joined the Muslim Brothers group, and he was detained in 1965 as he attending a meeting with his father, and as a result he was removed from his judicial post. He was brought to the military court and sentenced to one year imprisonment, and also sentenced to other five year imprisonment and released in 1971.

Al-Hudeibi returned back to the judiciary, to become the deputy chairman of the Cairo court of Cassation until he retired. He was elected as a member in the Egyptian parliament for al-Diqi circle of al-Jeeza province until 1987.

With the illness and the coma of the former general Murshid of the Muslim Brothers group, the late Mustafa Mashhour on October 29, 2002, following a brain bleeding, al-Hudeibi became the acting Murshid for the Muslim Brothers, and on November, 14, 2002 he became the general Murshid of the Muslim Brothers group in Egypt.