Ibrahim Munir

On 12 July 2022, the Muslim Brotherhood announced in a statement by the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Consultative Assembly that Ibrahim Munir was exempted from membership of the Muslim Brotherhood and he no longer represents or expresses the Muslim Brotherhood as a result of “non-compliance with the decisions of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Consultative Assembly, and formation of parallel entities away from the legitimate ones.”

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

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

In August 2015, Ibrahim Munir denied reports that had surfaced in Egyptian and Arab newspapers that he had become the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's new deputy Supreme Guide and acting Supreme Guide. He released a statement: "I stress that Dr Mahmoud Ezzat is still the deputy supreme guide and acting supreme guide. With regards my being assigned the duties of the deputy supreme guide, I had been tasked with this some time ago and it is not new." On 4 September 2020, he was appointed as the acting general leader of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood after Ezzat was arrested.

In April 2014 British Prime Minister David Cameron commissioned an internal review of the Muslim Brotherhood, including its origins, ideology, record in and out of government; and its organisation and activities in the UK and abroad. The investigation started earlier. In June 2014 Ibrahim Munir was to meet with Sir John Jenkins who led the U.K. government's review of the Muslim Brotherhood. Munir said about the review: "Regardless of the outcome of the review, we will adhere to our principles – and the main one is acting peacefully," he added. "We will abide by British law, but history will judge this action. I expect this review will clear the name of the Brotherhood. But if the result is negative, we will deal with it legally."

Since the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état which ousted Muslim Brotherhood president Mohamed Morsi the London office of the Muslim Brotherhood has become the de facto headquarters for the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood outside Egypt, with Ibrahim Munir in a leading position. Since the Muslim Brotherhood lost power in Egypt the position of Munir has become more visible.

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

In early March 2011, former Turkish Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan died and was buried in Istanbul. The burial of Erbakan brought a large delegation of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood to Istanbul and included former Supreme Guide of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Mahdi Akef, Mahmoud Ezzat, Saad El-Katatni, Ayman Aly, Youssef Nada and also Ibrahim Munir and his assistant Mahmoud El-Abiary.

In 2010 the Egyptian Attorney General Abdul Magid Mahmoud referred a case against Muslim Brotherhood leader abroad to the State Supreme Security Emergency Court for trial. One of the defendants in the case was Ibrahim Munir. He was previously acquitted by lower courts in Egypt in a case known as the Global Network. Among the charges were money laundering and raising funds abroad for an outlawed group. Munir was tried in absence and was convicted to a sentence of 5 years in jail.

Since Munir arrived in the United Kingdom he has become active in Muslim Brotherhood activities not only promoting the causes of his own movement but also more general Islamic causes. He was a director at the Islamic charity Human Relief International, the Takaful Trust and The Renaissance Foundation in the 1990s. In an interview with Asharq al-Awsat in 2011 he said that he had not visited Egypt since 1987.

Ahmed Ibrahim Munir Mustafa (Arabic: أحمد إبراهيم منير مصطفى; 1 June 1937 – 4 November 2022), known popularly as Ibrahim Munir (Arabic: إبراهيم منير), 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. His full name is Ahmed Ibrahim Munir Mustafa. He 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. Munir was released in 1975 and left for the Persian Gulf region and moved to the United Kingdom in the early 1980s. He applied for political asylum which was granted.