CAIRO
Egyptian security forces have detained 30 members of the Muslim Brotherhood group in fresh raids, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday.
The ministry said in a statement that the Brotherhood members had been detained in separate raids on Tuesday on alleged charges of violence and incitement.
In recent days, Egyptian security forces stepped up their crackdown on the Brotherhood, arresting scores of the group's middle-ranking members.
The Muslim Brotherhood, the group from which ousted President Mohamed Morsi hails, was designated a “terrorist organization” by the Egyptian government in late 2013.
The Brotherhood, for its part, insists it is committed to purely peaceful activism.
Egypt has been dogged by instability since the military ousted Morsi, the country's first freely elected president, in a 2013 coup.
In the two years since Morsi's overthrow, Egyptian authorities have waged a relentless crackdown on political dissent.
The crackdown, which has largely targeted Morsi’s supporters and members of his Muslim Brotherhood group, has seen hundreds killed and tens of thousands thrown behind bars.
