| | Date: Feb 22, 2018 | Source: The Daily Star | | Egypt arrests 6 on a farm owned by Islamist politician | Associated Press
CAIRO: Egypt's official news agency says police have arrested six suspected Muslim Brotherhood members on a farm allegedly owned by a recently detained Islamist politician.
The state-run MENA agency quoted an unnamed security official on Wednesday as saying the farmland in the Nile Delta province of Beheira belongs to Abdel-Monaem Abul Fetouh.
Abul Fetouh was arrested last week, after his return from a trip to London. He was ordered detained for two weeks pending completion of an investigation.
He was a longtime Brotherhood member, but quit the group in 2011 to run for president in the 2012 election won by President Mohammad Morsi.
Morsi's rule proved divisive, and a year later the military overthrew him and launched a crackdown on his supporters.
The government later declared the Brotherhood a terrorist group. | |
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