EGYPTIAN POLICE RAID HOUSE OF DEPOSED PRESIDENT MORSI

 

    Cairo, 14 Shawwal 1434/20 August 2013 (MINA) – Egyptian security forces raided houses of deposed President Mohammed Morsi and some members of the Muslim Brotherhood in the northern Egyptian city of al-Sharqia on Tuesday (20/8).

    According to the Muslim Brotherhood spokesman Ahmed Cabir al-Hac, police have searched the house of Morsi, where some members of the Muslim Brotherhood also live, in the early morning, Anadolu Agency quoted by Mi’raj News Agency (MINA) as reporting.

     No arrests have been made during the raid as the houses were empty.

   In a different operation in Zagazig town, Mohamed Abdulgani, one of the members of the Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) and a relative of Khairat el-Shater, a senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood, have been arrrested.

    Egyptian officials have made no mention of the raid yet but earlier they said spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, General Guide Mohammed Badie, had been arrested.

     Mohamed Badie, 70, was detained on Tuesday at a residential flat in Nasr City in northeast Cairo, Aljazeera reports.

     ONTV, a private, pro-military satellite channel, aired footage purporting to show Badie upon his detention. The channel said that Badie was on his way to prison under tight security, quoting security sources.

     Mohammed Baide is accused of inciting violence and murder over the killing of eight anti-Brotherhood protesters outside the movement’s headquarters in Cairo last June.

     Badie had been seen in public only once since Morsi was overthrown and that, with his arrest, most of the Brotherhood’s leadership are now in the custody of the military-led government.

     The Facebook page of the Interior Ministry also displayed pictures of Badie with a caption confirming his arrest.

     Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim told Al Masry Al Youm, a local newspaper, that Badie had been arrested in the early hours of Tuesday. (T/P09/P03)

Mi’raj News Agency (MINA)