Judicial authority calls for dissolving Muslim Brotherhood society

An Egyptian judicial authority on Monday recommended the dissolution of the Muslim Brotherhood Society, which was created by the Islamist group earlier this year, a judicial source told Anadolu Agency. The State Commissioner's Authority advised the Administrative Court to disband the Brotherhood society and shut down its main headquarters in Cairo's Moqattam district. The announcement comes amid an ongoing crackdown by Egypt's military-installed interim authorities on the Muslim Brotherhood and its leaders. The crackdown follows the violent dispersal of two sit-ins staged by supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi in Cairo and Giza last month that left hundreds dead. Since then, security forces have rounded up hundreds of the group's senior and mid-ranking members, topped by its supreme leader Mohamed Badie and his deputies Khairat al-Shater and Rashad Bayoumi. The Muslim Brotherhood had registered itself as a non-governmental organization in March amid complaints by its political rivals of operating outside state monitoring.