Abu Dhabi: Thirty people accused of running a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood in the UAE have been referred to the Federal Supreme Court, the Advocate General of the UAE State Security Public Prosecution said on Wednesday.
The 30—who are of UAE and Egypt nationalities—are on trial on charges of attempting to attract new members to the Muslim Brotherhood and maintaining continued loyalty of members in the UAE, said Advocate General Rashid Ahmad Al Dhanhani.
The group is accused of attempting to attract new members to the Muslim Brotherhood and to maintain continued loyalty of members in the UAE.
They collected donations without permits and obtained financial support from the organisation, which is seeking to seize power in the UAE, the prosecution says. Members of the group have previously been arrested and are being tried in the case of the secret organisation.
The defendants are also accused of forming a Media Commission within the branch’s organisational structure under the supervision of what they have called the General Administrative Office, which collects, prints and distributes news from the country of the mother organisation, to sub-commissions formed to educate the branch’s units and to provide them with news.
They disseminated documents, images and maps belonging to a government department after stealing a USB contained information about the secret organisation which aims to seize power in the country and names and photographs of its members, along with drawings of the building of that department and information about its work.
