Sudan's authorities have arrested and issued criminal charges against members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, a senior Sudanese official told Asharq Al-Awsat.
The public prosecutor and the judiciary will decide later if the suspects will be handed over to the Egyptian authorities.
The official, who asked not to be named, said that security agencies have arrested a number of Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood members residing in Sudan. They were then referred to the public prosecutor who charged them, without clarifying the charges.
Sudanese sources stated that the group includes five leaders of the so-called “Sawaed Misr - Hasm” which was affiliated with the “Muslim Brotherhood,” and established armed terrorist groups that fought battles with the police and military in Egypt.
Last month, a number of media reports indicated that Sudanese and Egyptian authorities have since February been coordinating security efforts to extradite the detainees, who were arrested while trying to escape to Turkey.
Meanwhile, Asharq Al-Awsat learned that four imprisoned senior army officers were infected with COVID-19, and authorities transferred them to an isolation center for treatment.
The officers are former joint chiefs of staff General Hashim Abdel Mottalib Ahmed, Major General Ibrahim Ahmed Abdulrahim, Brigadier General Muhyiddin Ahmed al-Hadi, and Brigadier General Mohammed Qureshi who were arrested for plotting a coup against the transitional government.
In July 2019, Sudan’s military said it thwarted a coup attempt and arrested an unspecified number of senior officers in connection with the plot.
The military revealed the attempted plot involved Ahmed and a number of high-ranking officers from the armed forces and the National Intelligence and Security Service, along with leaders of the Islamic Movement and the National Congress Party, led by former President Omar al-Bashir.
They sought to abort the revolution and disrupt the path for a political solution that aims to establish a civilian state.
