Thu Mar 13, 2014
Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have arrested two members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood at Cairo’s request, Egypt's top prosecutor has said.
The prosecutor's office said in a statement on Wednesday that the two men were arrested after Egypt’s interim government put an international arrest warrant on them for “inciting violence” in the city of Port Said in 2013.
“The office of the public prosecutor has received a notification of the arrest of Akram al-Shaer by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the accused Mohamed al-Qabouti by the state of Kuwait,” the statement said.
Al-Shaer was head of the health committee in parliament during ousted Mohamed Morsi's presidency.
Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have reportedly pumped billions of dollars into Egypt since the army ousted Egypt’s first democratically-elected president last July and suspended the country’s constitution and dissolved the parliament.
Egypt declared the Muslim Brotherhood a “terrorist” group late last year and accused its members of being responsible for a deadly bomb attack on a police headquarters building in the Delta Nile city of Mansoura in December 2013.
The Brotherhood, however, condemned the attack and denied involvement in the incident.
Last week, Riyadh followed Egypt’s suit to declare the 86-year-old group a terrorist organization.
Anti-government demonstrations have continued unabated across Egypt since Morsi's ouster despite a heavy-handed crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood and its supporters.
Human Rights Watch has denounced Egypt’s interim government for blacklisting the Brotherhood, saying the move “appears to be aimed at expanding the crackdown on peaceful Brotherhood activities and imposing harsh sanctions on its supporters.”
Source: PressTV.
Link: http://edition.presstv.ir/detail/354459.html.
Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have arrested two members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood at Cairo’s request, Egypt's top prosecutor has said.
The prosecutor's office said in a statement on Wednesday that the two men were arrested after Egypt’s interim government put an international arrest warrant on them for “inciting violence” in the city of Port Said in 2013.
“The office of the public prosecutor has received a notification of the arrest of Akram al-Shaer by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the accused Mohamed al-Qabouti by the state of Kuwait,” the statement said.
Al-Shaer was head of the health committee in parliament during ousted Mohamed Morsi's presidency.
Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have reportedly pumped billions of dollars into Egypt since the army ousted Egypt’s first democratically-elected president last July and suspended the country’s constitution and dissolved the parliament.
Egypt declared the Muslim Brotherhood a “terrorist” group late last year and accused its members of being responsible for a deadly bomb attack on a police headquarters building in the Delta Nile city of Mansoura in December 2013.
The Brotherhood, however, condemned the attack and denied involvement in the incident.
Last week, Riyadh followed Egypt’s suit to declare the 86-year-old group a terrorist organization.
Anti-government demonstrations have continued unabated across Egypt since Morsi's ouster despite a heavy-handed crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood and its supporters.
Human Rights Watch has denounced Egypt’s interim government for blacklisting the Brotherhood, saying the move “appears to be aimed at expanding the crackdown on peaceful Brotherhood activities and imposing harsh sanctions on its supporters.”
Source: PressTV.
Link: http://edition.presstv.ir/detail/354459.html.
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