"Egypt's patience has ended and the UAE's behaviour is disgraceful", said Vice-President of the Freedom and Justice Party Essam El-Erian on Monday during the meeting of the Arab Affairs Committee at the Shura Council. El-Erian burst out in anger making aggressive statements towards the Emirati people during Monday's Shura Council's meeting condemning UAE's behaviour towards the case of the 11 Egyptian detainees who were arrested in January for being allegedly claimed to be spies for the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt. Foreign Minister Assistant for Consular Affairs, Ali Al-Ashiri, said that the investigations with the detainees are concluded and the case is now in the Attorney General's office and the indictment is expected to be released very soon, according to state-owned Al-Ahram. "We are not allowed to send Egyptian lawyers to defend them over there", said Aziza El-Beih wife of the detained Salah Al-Mashad. "The Emirati lawyers are too expensive costing 150,000 Emirati Dirham per person plus we do not trust having an Emirati defence lawyer", added El-Beih. El-Beih also complained about the Egyptian government's handling of the issue, describing their performance as "unprofessional and inadequate by all measures". "The Egyptian Ambassador to the UAE only visited them twice since they were arrested, and the first time was two months and a half after the arrest," added El-Beih. The 11 detainees were arrested last January under the claim that they are leading an Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood plan to topple the ruling regime in the UAE. Even though the detainees admitted being members of the Muslim Brotherhood they denied leading any political activity of such a kind. This case has increased the tension between the two countries and led to worsening the relations, that were already tensioned after the 25 January 2011 Egyptian Revolution.
