EGYPT’S SECURITY ARREST HUNDREDS OF ANTI COUP ALLIANCE MEMBERS
Cairo, 9 Rabi’ul Awwal 1435/11 January 2014 (MINA) – A total of 169 Morsy loyalists were arrested across Egypt on Friday following clashes between police and supporters of the ousted president, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
Three suspects allegedly set fire to a police vehicle in Zaitoun, Cairo, and were apprehended while in possession of a box filled with 12 Molotov cocktails, the statement said.
“Six others were arrested in Rod al-Farag, Cairo, with six molotovs and six gas masks,” officials added. “They admitted that they had been on their way to back up Brotherhood marches in Talbiya, Giza.”
The ministry said that citizens in Matariya and Ain Shams districts in Cairo confronted the “terrorist organization” and arrested two of them with nine molotovs, Egypt Independent quoted by Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA) as reporting.
Egypt remains in chaos after military coup de etat ousted its first freely elected president Mohamed Morsi July 3, 2013. The alliance which was formed after the ousting of Morsi continuing their weekly peace protest across Egypt demanding the release of Morsi and thousands of Brotherhood members who were detained in jail.
Meanwhile on its official website, The Freedom and Justice Party, the Muslim Brotherhood’s political wing, denounces coup authorities’ “illegitimate and unethical repressive practices” against the elected President Morsi.
They claimed forced detention of the democratically elected President will remain this regime’s biggest crime.
The FJP calls upon the world community, international organizations and free peoples of the world to uphold the values of justice and respect for human rights, in support of the region’s stability, to avoid serious unrest that may well impact the stability of the international community as a whole.(T/P03/E1)
Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)
