El-Shater formally resigned from the Brotherhood in order to run for president and to avoid violating the Brotherhood's pledge not to field a candidate | In 1995, he became head of the Brotherhood's branch |
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4 July 2013 at the , Islamic Human Rights Commission, May 2007, retrieved on 2 April 2012• The announcement of Shater's presidential candidacy was a historical first for the 83-year-old group, which originally pledged that none of their members would run for president to calm secular and western governments' fears of a complete Islamist takeover by the group | Both verdicts can be appealed |
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2831 March 2012 , , The New York Times• | There he participated in the February 1968 student protests against the government |
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On 11 December 2013, a second panel of judges withdrew from the trial | , The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers, Foreign Policy, December 2011 , retrieved 15 February 2012• After the then president 's assassination in 1981, el-Shater was exiled as an Islamist dissident, and left for |