Middle East Politics.Net » Muslim Brotherhood http://middleeastpolitics.net Facts, News, Trends, Analysis Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:56:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 28 Islamists Detained in Northwestern Egypt http://middleeastpolitics.net/2008/11/30/28-islamists-detained-in-northwestern-egypt/ http://middleeastpolitics.net/2008/11/30/28-islamists-detained-in-northwestern-egypt/#comments Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:14:49 +0000 aljoaan http://middleeastpolitics.net/?p=3077 Egyptian police detained 28 members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood movement in the northwestern coastal town of Marsa Matrouh on Saturday, police and Brotherhood sources told Reuters. The police said the Islamists, 24 from Marsa Matrouh province and four from the coastal city of Alexandria, were attending an organizational meeting. The Brotherhood said police took them from their homes at dawn.

The government calls the Brotherhood an illegal organization, but allows it to operate openly within limits. The movement has held about a fifth of the seats in parliament since 2005. The police often detain Brotherhood members and hold them for long periods before freeing them without charges. The Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest opposition group, says about 171 members are now in detention.

Ahmad Aljoaan

]]> http://middleeastpolitics.net/2008/11/30/28-islamists-detained-in-northwestern-egypt/feed/ 0 Brotherhood Members Arrested in Egypt http://middleeastpolitics.net/2008/10/23/brotherhood-members-arrested-in-egypt/ http://middleeastpolitics.net/2008/10/23/brotherhood-members-arrested-in-egypt/#comments Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:32:56 +0000 aljoaan http://middleeastpolitics.net/?p=1679 Police in Egypt have arrested 32 members of the Muslim Brotherhood for belonging to a banned group and for protesting the Israeli siege of Gaza. The Brotherhood and security sources confirmed to Aljazeera, that 12 men were arrested in raids carried out on Wednesday morning in Fayoum, an agricultural area southwest of the capital Cairo. Another 14 men were rounded-up early on Tuesday following dawn raids in the Mediterranean city of Port Said. Five other men were arrested in Cairo and another in Beni Sueif, south of the capital, on the same day, according to AFP news agency.

The Muslim Brotherhood–Egypt’s largest opposition group–said its members were arrested because they took part in protests against the country’s Gaza border policy and the Israeli blockade earlier this month. Another 30 were arrested at that time of the protests and are mentioned in a previous post. Egypt has occasionally opened the Rafah border crossing, but refused to open it permanently. The Rafah border crossing is the only crossing not directly controlled by Israel.

Ahmad Aljoaan

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