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| Egypt: Dozens of Muslim Brotherhood members arrested |
| 2008-09-18 |
| (AKI) - Egyptian police arrested 31 members of the banned Sunni Islamist movement, the Muslim Brotherhood on Wednesday. Most of those arrested were university students from Cairo's al-Azhar University. Nineteen of the men were arrested in the Nile Delta area in northern Egypt, a Muslim Brotherhood stronghold. The Muslim Brotherhood has been outlawed by the Egyptian government, which accuses the group of encouraging violence in order to establish an Islamic state. The students were accused of belonging to an illegal organisation and of being in possession of literature deemed illegal. The organisation is considered the most powerful opposition group in Egypt even though it has been banned since 1954. In some cases, its members have won parliamentary seats as independents in recent elections. |
| Posted by:Fred |