Egyptian authorities have ordered the freezing of the assets of over 1,300 members of the Muslim Brotherhood, as the country’s army-backed government steps up its clampdown on the movement. 

Ezzat Khamis, the head of a government-appointed committee tasked with running the Brotherhood's assets, said on Thursday that the panel seized assets of 1,345 members over the past 18 months.

Khamis added that authorities have also frozen hundreds of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and dozens of Brotherhood-linked hospitals over the same period. “The committee has also taken over 1,117 NGOs and 50 hospitals for Brotherhood links.”

The Egyptian government has also seized at least 103 schools run by the group.

The government committee was formed in September 2013 after an Egyptian court ordered the group's dissolution and the confiscation of its offices and funds.

Egypt has been struck by violence ever since Mohamed Morsi, the North African country’s first democratically-elected president, was toppled by the military under the leadership of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Egypt’s current president, in July 2013.

The government has overseen a crackdown targeting the Muslim Brotherhood supporters and other critics. The clampdown on Brotherhood supporters has reportedly left over 1,400 people dead.

The military-backed government has criminalized street protests, sentenced hundreds to death in mass trials and imprisoned some 40,000 political opponents and their supporters.

According to documentations gathered by several leading local and international rights organizations, nearly 300 political prisoners have died in Egyptian detention facilities since Morsi's ouster.