Egypt Forces Detain Senior Brotherhood Leader in Cairo
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Egyptian authorities on Wednesday detained senior Muslim Brotherhood figure Essam al-Erian, one of the last few leaders of the Islamist movement to have escaped a security crackdown, the interior ministry said.
Pictures of Erian circulating on social media, apparently taken during his arrest, showed him smiling and making a gesture symbolizing the rejection of the military's ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Mursi in July.
Erian was moved to Tora prison, where much of the movement's leadership is being held, and public prosecutors have begun questioning him, the official MENA news agency reported.
The leader faces charges of inciting violence on several occasions.
The search for Erian had extended to eight provinces, according to a security official quoted by MENA.
More than 1,000 people have been killed since Mursi's ouster, and the authorities have detained some 2,000 Islamists, including most of the Muslim Brotherhood's leadership.
Mursi himself has been held incommunicado in military custody since his ouster and is due to go on trial on November 4.
Source: AFP
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