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More Islamists held before Egypt vote

Egyptian police detained at least 41 members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood on Monday as part of what the Islamist movement says is an attempt to disrupt its plans for local council elections.

  • Reuters
  • Published: 00:08 February 18, 2008
  • Gulf News

Cairo: Egyptian police detained at least 41 members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood on Monday as part of what the Islamist movement says is an attempt to disrupt its plans for local council elections.

Brotherhood official Mohammad Osama said that police took 44 men at dawn from their homes in the Nile Delta province of Dakahlia, the Suez Canal town of Esmailia and the southern province of Beni Suef.

A security source who asked not to be named said police took away 41 Islamists from Dakahlia, Ismailia, Suez and New Valley province in the Western Desert.

Some of them were planning to stand as candidates in the local council elections, which are expected to take place in April or May, and others were active in campaign preparations, the source added.

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