Khalid Hanafi, secretary of the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) and member of the Muslim Brotherhood, speaks during a news conference in Cairo August 29, 2013. REUTERS/Louafi Larbi
CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court on Saturday dissolved the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the political wing of the banned Muslim Brotherhood, dealing a crippling blow in the campaign to crush Egypt's oldest Islamist movement.
A court banned the Muslim Brotherhood itself in September, but that ruling did not mention its political wing, leaving open the possibility it could be allowed to run in parliamentary elections, due late this year.
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