Saad El-Katatni

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{{Short description|Egyptian politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}}

{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Saad El-Katatni
| image = Dr saad Katatni.jpeg
| office = [[Freedom and Justice Party (Egypt)|Chairman of the Freedom and Justice Party]]
| term_start = 19 October 2012
| term_end =
| predecessor = [[Mohamed Morsi]]
| successor =
| office2 = [[List of Speakers of the House of Representatives (Egypt)|Speaker of the People's Assembly]]
| term_start2 = 23 January 2012
| term_end2 = 22 September 2012
| appointer2 = [[House of Representatives (Egypt)|People's Assembly]]
| predecessor2 = [[Ahmad Fathi Sorour]] {{small|(2011)}}
| successor2 = [[Ali Abdel Aal]] {{small|(2016)}}
| office3 = Secretary-General of the [[Freedom and Justice Party (Egypt)|Freedom and Justice Party]]
| term_start3 = 30 April 2011
| term_end3 = 22 January 2012
| predecessor3 = Position established
| successor3 =
| birth_name = Mohamed Saad Tawfik El-Katatni
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1952|3|4|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Girga]], [[Kingdom of Egypt|Egypt]]
| death_date =
| death_place =
| party = [[Freedom and Justice Party (Egypt)|Freedom and Justice Party]]
| alma_mater = [[Minya University]]
| profession = Academic
| footnotes =
| president2 = [[Mohamed Hussein Tantawi]] {{small|( as [[Supreme Council of the Armed Forces|Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces of Egypt]])}} <br> [[Mohamed Morsi]]
| primeminister2 = [[Kamal Ganzouri]] <br> [[Hesham Qandil]]
}}
'''Saad El-Katatni''' ({{lang-ar|سعد الكتاتني}}, alternatively spelled ''El-Katatny'' or ''Al-Katatni''; born 4 March 1952) is an Egyptian [[Islamism|Islamist]] politician who has been the chairman of the [[Freedom and Justice Party (Egypt)|Freedom and Justice Party]] (FJP) since October 2012.<ref name="FJPchair">{{Cite news|title=Egypt's El-Katatni becomes new head of Muslim Brotherhood's FJP|url=http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/56019/Egypt/Politics-/BREAKING-Egypts-ElKatatni-becomes-new-head-of-Musl.aspx|work=Ahram Online|date=19 October 2012|accessdate=19 October 2012}}</ref> From January 2012 until its dissolution in September he was the first [[Speaker of the People's Assembly of Egypt|Speaker of the People's Assembly]] after the [[Egyptian Revolution of 2011]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ahram.org.eg/The-First/News/126665.aspx|title=ط§ظ"ظƒطھط§طھظ†ظ‰ ط±ط¦ظٹط³ط§ ظ"ط¨ط±ظ"ظ…ط§ظ† ط§ظ"ط«ظˆط±ط© ط¨ظ€399 طµظˆطھط§ظ‹|publisher=Ahram|accessdate=5 December 2012}}</ref> Prior to this, he served as the first secretary-general of the FJP<ref>[http://digital.ahram.org.eg/articles.aspx?Serial=490696&eid=1734 11 May 2011] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130518024654/http://digital.ahram.org.eg/articles.aspx?Serial=490696&eid=1734 |date=18 May 2013 }}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160303180921/http://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL5E8CN1YZ20120123 Egypt assembly picks Islamist speaker] ''Reuters''</ref> and was a member of the Guidance Bureau of the [[Muslim Brotherhood]].

==Early life and education==
El-Katatni was born on 4 March 1952. He completed his undergraduate studies of [[botany]] at the [[Assiut University]] with a BSc degree in 1974. After one year of military conscription, he continued his studies, specialising in [[microbiology]] and taking his master's degree in 1979. After four more years of study at the [[Minya University]], concurrently with the work as an assistant lecturer, he was conferred a doctorate in microbiology (physiological plant pathology). Subsequently, he worked as a lecturer at the same university. In 1991 he was promoted to become associate professor. In 2004, he got a full professorship.<ref>[http://www.minia.edu.eg/cv_minia/MN_FSCN_BOTA__STAFFDATA_STAFFDATA_Mohamed.ElKatatny.pdf Curriculum Vitae], Minya University, Retrieved 15 February 2012</ref>

==Political career==
From 2005 to 2010, El-Katatni led the parliamentary bloc of the [[Muslim Brotherhood]]. Later, he served on the guidance bureau of the group. When the Muslim Brotherhood founded the [[Freedom and Justice Party (Egypt)|Freedom and Justice Party]] on 30 April 2011, El-Katatni was chosen as the secretary-general of the party. Therefore, he retired from the guidance bureau.<ref name="CEIP">{{Citation|title=Saad al-Katatni|work=Guide to Egypt's Transition|publisher=Carnegie Endowment for International Peace|url=http://egyptelections.carnegieendowment.org/2010/09/02/profile-of-saad-al-katatni|accessdate=15 February 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120130143028/http://egyptelections.carnegieendowment.org/2010/09/02/profile-of-saad-al-katatni|archivedate=30 January 2012}}</ref>

On 22 January 2012, he resigned as FJP secretary to become elected as the [[Speaker of the People's Assembly of Egypt]] the next day. He received 399 votes, 80 percent of the 498 votes cast.<ref name="Souaiaia, Ahmed">{{cite web|last=Souaiaia|first=Ahmed|title=Egypt and the Islamists|url=http://www.fpif.org/articles/egypt_and_the_islamists|work=Foreign Policy in Focus|publisher=Foreign Policy in Focus|accessdate=6 February 2012}}</ref>

On 19 October 2012, the FJP selected him to serve as the party's chairman. At the time, the FJP is Egypt's largest political party and controls 47% of Egypt's lower house of parliament's seats.<ref name="FJPchair"/>

==Political views==
After he was selected as the FJP's party's chairman, Katatni expressed his desire to implement Islamic [[Sharia]] law in Egypt, saying that the FJP was established by the [[Muslim Brotherhood]] in order to represent the Brotherhood's "political project, which, in the end, will be a wise government that will institute Islamic Shari’a law." Katani declared his election as the first step toward achieving the FJP's goals.<ref>{{cite web|title=New FJP leader in Egypt calls for Sharia law|url=http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=288551|work=The Jerusalem Post|accessdate=21 October 2012|date=20 October 2012}}</ref>

==Arrest==
In the aftermath of the [[2013 Egyptian coup d'état]], El-Katatni was arrested on 4 July 2013.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/75649/Egypt/Politics-/Egypt-arrests-leading-Brotherhood-members,-includi.aspx|title=Egypt arrests leading Brotherhood members, including El-Katatni - Politics - Egypt - Ahram Online|website=english.ahram.org.eg|language=en|access-date=2017-12-05}}</ref> Egyptian prosecutor general [[Hisham Barakat]] ordered his assets to be frozen on 14 July 2013.<ref name="egypindep">{{Cite news|title=Asset freeze for Islamist leaders goes into action|url=http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/asset-freeze-islamist-leaders-goes-action|work=Egypt Independent|date=15 July 2013|accessdate=15 July 2013}}</ref> On 29 October 2013, a three-judge panel at Cairo Criminal Court stepped down from the proceedings, citing "uneasiness" over the trial.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/10/29/judges-in-egyptianbrotherhoodtrialquit.html|title=Judges in Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood trial quit|access-date=2017-12-05}}</ref> On 11 December 2013, a second panel of judges withdrew from the trial.<ref>[http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/88855/Egypt/Politics-/Second-judging-panel-withdraws-from-Brotherhood-tr.aspx Second judging panel withdraws from Brotherhood trial] ''Ahram Online''. 12 December 2013. Retrieved 29 December 2013.</ref> He was sentenced to life imprisonment in February 2015,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://egyptindependent.com/egypt-brotherhood-chief-handed-fourth-life-sentence/|title=Egypt Brotherhood chief handed fourth life sentence|access-date=2020-02-25}}</ref> a decision that was overturned in November 2016. As of September 2019, El-Katatni remains in custody pending retrial.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.elbalad.news/3971537|title=المؤبد لـ بديع والبلتاجي والكتاتني في اقتحام الحدود.. تعرف على حكم المحكمة..فيديو|access-date=2020-02-25}}</ref>

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[[Category:Members of the Egyptian Constituent Assembly of 2012]]
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