(MENAFN) According to his daughter, former Muslim Brotherhood head Mohammed Mahdi Akef who turned Egypt's Islamist movement into an
opposition force, died in a local hospital in cairo at age 89 on Friday.
"My father is in the care of Allah", his daughter,Aliya Mahdi Akef, said on facebook.
Brotherhood lawyer Abdel Moneim Abdel Maqsud said that Akef had been transferred from jail to a Cairo hospital ten months
prior his death for cancer treatment.
After the military overthrew Islamist president Mohamed Morsi and jailed his supporters and fellow Brotherhood members,
Akef was arrested and jailed in 2013.
Akef, who was born in 1928, was the head of Muslim Brotherhood from 2004 until 2010.
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