Egypt: More opposition members arrested

  1. Posted on Wednesday 27 October 2010 - 09:20
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    Kingsley Kobo, AfricaNews reporter in Abidjan, Ivory Coast
    Egyptian authorities have arrested 70 members of the outlawed opposition Muslim Brotherhood while pasting election posters ahead of November polls. The political activists were rounded up in and around the coastal city of Alexandria because their posters allegedly bore religious slogans in violation of electoral laws.
    Egypt: Opposition party accuses police of crackdown
    “Police arrested around 70 Brotherhood members at dawn as they were hanging posters for a woman candidate in various parts of the Alexandria governorate," Islamist MP Hussein Ibrahim told AFP.

    Ibrahim said the messages on the posters were not provocative, but simply the Koranic phrase “Allahu akbar” (God is greater).

    “The streets of Alexandria are rife with campaign posters for candidates from the National Democratic Party (NDP) which carry Quranic verses,” Ibrahim said of the ruling party of Hosni Mubarak, the president.

    The latest arrests bring to 260 the number of Brotherhood supporters who have been detained over the past 10 days, but most of them have now been released, according security sources.

    A total of 508 seats are up for November election in the legislature, which is currently dominated by the NDP.

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