PORT SAID
Egyptian security forces detained Ali Mohamed Farag, a former lawmaker for the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), in the canal city of Port Said on Thursday.
According to security sources, Farag, the FJP Secretary-General in the city of Matariya north of Cairo, was arrested in an apartment in Matariya on charges of "inciting violence and joining an armed gang."
Egyptian authorities have unleashed a massive crackdown on Brotherhood leaders since the bloody dispersal last month of two protest camps, in which hundreds of supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi – deposed by Egypt's powerful military on July 3 – were killed by security forces.
Since then, Egypt's military-backed authorities have rounded up hundreds of the Brotherhood's senior and mid-ranking members, topped by group leader Mohamed Badie and deputies Khairat al-Shater and Rashad Bayoumi.
By Hamdy Gomaa
englishnews@aa.com.tr
