Al-Masry Al-Youm has learnt that the investigations of the Supreme State Security Prosecution with the leaders and members of the Muslim Brotherhood [MB] who were arrested on Thursday included Abdel Moniem Aboul Fotouh, a member of the Guidance Bureau and secretary of the Arab Lawyers Union, as well as People's Assembly MB deputies Saad Al-Husseini, Dr. Mohamed Saad El-Katatni and Hussein Ibrahim Muslim Brotherhood. However, these people are not among those arrested. The security services arrested 13 MB members on charges of setting up a liaison committee within the group to develop plans to help the MB international organization.
The investigations (404 Supreme State Security inventory) were carried out with 13 leading figures and members of the group, starting with Dr. Osama Nasr Eddin, a member of the Guidance Bureau. These leading figures have been charged by the Prosecution with carrying out activities inside the Guidance Bureau to help the global organization of the MB.
According to the investigations, Dr. Issam Haddad, one of those arrested, presided the meetings of this committee as deputy of El-Husseini, while Dr. Ibrahim Mustafa, another person arrested, was the secretary general. The prosecution charged Hussein Mohamed Ibrahim and Mohamed Saad El-Katatni, deputies of the People's Assembly, with being members of that committee. The prosecution also charged the officials of that committee with providing material support to students studying abroad to ensure their loyalty to the organization during their studies and after their return to their country. For their part, the defendants denied all the accusations mentioned in the investigations, from forming committees in order to keep contacts with the outside world to supporting the international MB.
The lawyer of the group, Abdel Moneim Abdel Maqsoud, said to Al-Masry Al-Youm: "I think the entire issue is political and aims to tell the group that the regime will not let it move freely".
