Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has lost an appeal against a court decision to ban the group and seize its assets.

Egyptian court sources announced on Wednesday that the court rejected the Muslim Brotherhood’s request to cancel its decision on banning the group’s activities and the seizure of its funds.

In September, an administrative court in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, banned all activities of the Muslim Brotherhood as a non-governmental organization (NGO) and ordered all their funds, assets and headquarters siezed as part of a sweeping crackdown against the movement.

There has been a surge in clampdown on the group since the ouster of the first democratically elected President of Egypt, Mohamed Morsi, who is a Muslim Brotherhood member, early in July.

On July 3, the head of the Egyptian armed forces General Fattah al-Sisi toppled Mohamed Morsi in a “military coup,” suspended the constitution and dissolved the parliament. On the following day, he appointed the head of the Supreme Constitutional Court, Adly Mahmoud Mansour, as the new interim president.

On October 7, a panel of Egyptian judges also recommended the dissolution of the Muslim Brotherhood’s political party, claiming the party represents an outlawed group.

The decades-old movement had formed a political party in 2011, months after the fall of former Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak.