எகிப்தில் 50 முஸ்லீம் தீவிரவாதிகள் கைது

எகிப்து அரசாங்கம் முஸ்லீம் பிரதர்ஹூட் என்ற அமைப்பை சார்ந்த 50 தீவிரவாதிகளை கைது செய்திருக்கிறது. இந்த அமைப்பை சார்ந்தவர்கள் பல வருடங்களுக்கு முன்னர் எகிப்துக்கு வரும் டூரிஸ்டுகளை தாக்கி கொன்றார்கள்

Egypt detains 50 Muslim Brotherhood students: source
Sat Jun 30, 2007 12:23PM EDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian police detained 50 students from the Muslim Brotherhood, the country's most powerful opposition group, in a renewed crackdown on the movement Saturday, a Brotherhood source said.

A security source gave the figure as 45 detained.

The detainees are students from several universities throughout Egypt and had been holidaying in the coastal city of Alexandria when police raided their lodgings, the Brotherhood source said.

The security source said they had been detained for holding meetings and possessing Brotherhood literature.

Brotherhood deputy leader Mohamed Habib said the crackdown on the group's youth wing was part of the government's continuing efforts to contain and marginalise the movement.

"The students are among the active elements of the Brotherhood, particularly in the universities," Habib told Reuters.

An interior ministry spokesman said he knew nothing about the detentions.

The government says the Brotherhood is an illegal organisation and it frequently detains its members, often releasing them without charge after days or weeks in detention.

But the organisation runs an office in Cairo and fields candidates in elections as independents.

The Brotherhood, which rejects violence, won 88 seats in the 454-seat parliament in 2005, but failed to win any seat to the upper house of parliament in June elections that were marred by reports of widespread irregularities.