Egyptian security forces arrested a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo late Wednesday.
Ali Fathul Bab, 55, a former lawmaker of the Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), was detained in his home in the 15 May neighborhood in the southern Cairo suburb of Hilwan, security sources said.
The former MP faces charges of inciting violence in the wake of the dispersal of protest camps staged by ousted president Mohamed Morsi’s supporters in Cairo earlier this month.
Egyptian authorities have unleashed a massive crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood since the August 14 dispersal of pro-Morsi sit-ins, which left hundreds of people dead.
On Wednesday, security forces arrested at least 66 Brotherhood members.
Among those arrested was the son of Brotherhood deputy leader Khairat al-Shater, Saad, who was picked up by police from his family home in Cairo's Nasr City early Wednesday morning on charges of "inciting violence".
