An Egyptian court on Tuesday banned members of ousted president Mohammad Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood from running in upcoming elections, a lawyer and state media said.

An Egyptian court on Tuesday banned members of ousted president Mohammad Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood from running in upcoming elections, a lawyer and state media said.

Egypt's military-installed authorities are engaged in a deadly crackdown against the Islamist movement, which swept elections in Egypt after the overthrow of president Hosni Mubarak in 2011 but is now blacklisted as a "terrorist group."

A court in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria ordered authorities to bar any candidacies from Brotherhood members or former members in presidential and parliamentary elections

The ruling came after a group of private citizens who have protested against the Brotherhood filed a petition calling for the ban.

"It is illogical to receive such candidacies after the government designated the Brotherhood a terrorist organization," Tareq Mahmoud, a lawyer from the group, told AFP.

"We submitted videos, photos and documents showing terrorist acts carried out by the Muslim Brotherhood, which is why it is illogical that they lead the country or represent its people in elections."

In December, the authorities blacklisted the Muslim Brotherhood as a "terrorist group" after blaming it for a deadly bombing north of Cairo that was claimed by a jihadist group.

Former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, whose popularity has soared since he deposed Mursi last summer following massive protests, is widely expected to win the May 26-27 presidential election, which is to be followed by parliamentary polls.

Authorities have waged a brutal crackdown on the Brotherhood since Mursi's overthrow, with Amnesty International estimating that more than 1,400 people have been killed, mostly Islamists.

More than 15,000 Islamists, mainly Brotherhood members, have been jailed, while hundreds have been sentenced to death following often speedy trials.