The Cairo Court for Urgent Matters postponed to 4 March its verdict to on a lawsuit pushing for the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas to be designated a terrorist organization.
The court was supposed to issue the ruling today, but decided to pospone it for the third time.
Egyptian law permits the court to postpone a verdict three times after the sessions and pleadings are finished.
Lawyer Samir Sabry had filed a lawsuit to the interim president, prime minister and interior minister demanding the Hamas be labeled a terrorist organization.
"Hamas originated in Palestine as an Islamic resistance movement but turned into a terrorist organization," Sabry argued in his pleading. He added that Hamas currently has strong ties with the Muslim Brotherhood which is currently designated as a terrorist organization by the Egyptian government.
Sabry mentioned that Hamas members inflitrated Egyptian borders in 2008 and are accused of storming Egyptian prisons in 2011.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
