CAIRO
Egypt's chief prosecutor's office has issued arrest warrants for five leading figures from the powerful Muslim Brotherhood on charges of "inciting violence".
Supreme Guide Mohammed Badie, deputy Khayrat al-Shater, and former head Mahdi Aqef are among those wanted for incidents of violence that took place on Friday in Nahda Square near Cairo University.
Meanwhile, Salafi leader Hazem Salah Abu Ismail was arrested earlier Friday and was sent to Tora prison south of capital Cairo.
Egypt's state TV and official news agency had earlier said that Saad el-Katatni, chairman of Freedom and Justice Party and a prominent Brotherhood figure, and Rashad al-Bayumi, deputy head of the organization, were released during the ongoing investigation into allegations that they incited the killing of anti-Morsi protesters.
Mustafa Baz, assistant interior minister responsible for prisons, told the Anadolu Agency correspondent that el-Katatni and Bayumi were still under detention, and no release order had arrived from the chief prosecutor's office.
El-Katatni and Bayumi had been detained on Thursday for "inciting violence and killing of protesters", while many from the Brotherhood leadership were banned from leaving the country.
