Arrest [ ] El-Shater was arrested on 5 July 2013, following the which unseated the Brotherhood-led government and President | Under the Mubarak regime, he was imprisoned from 2007 until his release by the in March 2011 |
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The Middle East researcher Avi Asher-Schapiro considers el-Shater to be a strong advocate of privatization and free market | After returning in the mid-1980s, he became an active member of the Muslim Brotherhood |
The Egyptian barred El-Shater from the presidential race on 14 April 2012, stating that he was only released from prison in March 2011, in violation of election rules stating that a candidate has to be released from prison for 6 years before he can become a candidate | On 16 May 2015, another court issued a preliminary death sentence against him in a separate case |
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Bar'el, Zvi 14 February 2012 , , Haaretz , retrieved 16 February 2012• 4 July 2013 at the , Islamic Human Rights Commission, May 2007, retrieved on 2 April 2012• 31 March 2012 , , The New York Times• He studied engineering at the | There he participated in the February 1968 student protests against the government |