13 Facts About Ibrahim Munir

Ahmed Ibrahim Munir Mustafa, known popularly as Ibrahim Munir, was the Secretary General of the International Organisation of the Muslim Brotherhood and the spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood in the West.

Ibrahim Munir was born on 1 June 1937 in Giza, Egypt.

Ibrahim Munir joined the Muslim Brotherhood at an early age and was sentenced to life imprisonment in Egypt in the 1950s following the attempted assassination of the Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser.

Since Ibrahim Munir arrived in the United Kingdom he has become active in Muslim Brotherhood activities not only promoting the causes of his own movement but more general Islamic causes.

Ibrahim Munir was a director at the Islamic charity Human Relief International, the Takaful Trust and The Renaissance Foundation in the 1990s.

Ibrahim Munir was previously acquitted by lower courts in Egypt in a case known as the Global Network.

Ibrahim Munir was tried in absence and was convicted to a sentence of 5 years in jail.

Since the Muslim Brotherhood lost power in Egypt the position of Ibrahim Munir has become more visible.

On 17 July 2013, Ibrahim Munir wrote an Op-Ed in Asharq al-Awsat where he claimed that Morsi's ouster was in fact a military coup.

Also on social media Ibrahim Munir can be seen attending many demonstration in London organised by different organisations often close to the Muslim Brotherhood under the umbrella the UK Anti-Coup Alliance often showing the Rabia sign.

In June 2014 Ibrahim Munir was to meet with Sir John Jenkins who led the UK government's review of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Ibrahim Munir was the most senior member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood until October 2021 when the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Consultative Assembly made a decision to withdraw confidence from him, and relieve him of his responsibility in the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.

Ibrahim Munir died on 4 November 2022 in London, at the age of 85.