Nobel Peace Prize laureate and political activist Tawakkol Karman has expressed condolences over the death of Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Mahdi Akef.

Akef, who was among those detained in a crackdown after Egypt’s elected president Mohamed Mursi, died today at Cairo’s Qasr El-Eyni hospital, according to his daughter’s statement on Facebook. 

Karman added that the tyrants and their detention centers were unable to defeat Akef, indicating that the late lived as he wanted and the tyranny and capture had not led him giving up his principles in prisons of Egypt’s al-Sisi.  

Akef was an example of a leader who was keen to develop his ideas and political vision, and his resignation as a supreme leader of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood had a major impact in the attempt to democratize the Islamist movement, explained Karman. 

She pointed out that Akef today defeated his illness and tormentor at the same time, noting that a day will come when “the Owner of Judge’s Day judges between adversaries."

Akef, who headed the Muslim Brotherhood from 2004 to 2010, was among hundreds of the group’s figures detained following the military coup led by the present president of Egypt against the democratically-elected president Mohammed Morsi in 2013. 

Following his resignation from the post in 2010, he was replaced by the group’s current leader, Mohammed Badie, who has remained in prison in Egypt since that country’s 2013 military coup.

It should be noted that a top court has recently upheld a life sentence against Egypt’s ousted president Mohammed Morsi on charges stemming from a trial over spying for Qatar, according to his lawyer said.