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Freedom and Justice Party

حزب الحرية والعدالة

Political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood, founded after the 2011 revolution and dissolved by court order in 2014.

Standing
Extra-parliamentary
Legal
Dissolved
Review
Verified
Founded
2011
Dissolved
2014
Founders
Mohamed Morsi; Mohamed Saad El-Katatni; Essam el-Erian

Position

No position assigned yet for this party.

Briefs about Freedom and Justice Party

Comparative political-science briefs pairing this party with others. 3 briefs on file.

Members & affiliated figures

Politicians currently identified with this party — leaders, ministers, MPs, and other active figures. All affiliated politicians →

Associated legislation

Bills this party introduced, championed, or whose passage / blocking it's publicly associated with. Status indicates the bill's parliamentary outcome. All Egypt bills →

Recent events

Political events involving this party — formations, mergers, leadership changes, designation shifts. All events at /pulse →

  • Confirmed Other August 14, 2013

    Rabaa massacre

    Egyptian security forces cleared the Rabaa al-Adawiya and Nahda Square sit-ins on 2013-08-14, killing at least 817 Muslim Brotherhood supporters in a single day. Human Rights Watch called it one of the worst single-day mass killings of demonstrators in modern history. Marked the consolidation of Sisi's power.

  • Confirmed Coalition collapsed July 3, 2013

    Morsi ousted, Brotherhood government ends

    Defense Minister Abdel Fattah el-Sisi removed elected President Mohamed Morsi from power on 2013-07-03 after mass protests against the Brotherhood government, suspended the constitution, and arrested senior Brotherhood figures. The end of Egypt's post-Mubarak democratic experiment.

Declared vs. behavioral

For the axes below, this party's declared position (what the party says in its platform / official rhetoric) diverges from its behavioral position (its record of votes, coalition choices, or public actions). The spread itself is the methodological point — capturing the gap that a single composite score collapses.

Lens spreads are currently hand-coded on a curated set of cases where the gap is well-documented. Document-grounded scoring against the party's own platform documents (declared) and its voting / coalition record (behavioral) will scale this across the dataset. See methodology for the full lens-system roadmap.

Source documents

Texts the scoring pipeline reads — manifestos, speeches, platforms. Each document's verbatim content backs the position score above; the model cites specific phrases from these texts when scoring. All documents →

  • Party platform Arabic 2011-06-01

    FJP 2011 parliamentary election program

    First: Characteristics of the state: The State envisaged in our program is the national constitutional Islamic modern democracy, based on Sharia (Islamic law) as a frame of reference. By its nature, Sharia nurtures…

Sources

Per-field citations for the verified claims above. Other fields (notably the compass scores) remain hand-coded priors and are marked unverified until they pass the methodology pipeline — see methodology.

  • founded_year en.wikipedia.org 2026-06-06 FJP founded 2011 as Brotherhood political wing after January 25 revolution
  • legal_status en.wikipedia.org 2026-06-06 Outlawed in Egypt 2013-12-25; FJP dissolved August 2014
  • current_leader_text en.wikipedia.org 2026-06-06 Mohamed Morsi led party 2011-2012; died in detention 2019

How to cite

Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.

In-text: (Gara, 2026)

APA 7Reference list · academic default
Gara, T. (2026). Freedom and Justice Party [Party profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/p/fjp
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Freedom and Justice Party." Party profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/p/fjp.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-fjp,
  title     = {{Freedom and Justice Party}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Party profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/p/fjp},
  urldate   = {2026-06-21},
  note      = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.

APA 7Preprint
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-06-21},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.