(KUNA) -- Some 78 Muslim Brotherhood members were rounded up Thursday in Egypt on several charges including reviving a banned movement and owning banned anti-regime literature and given 15-day jail sentences.
The arrests were made ahead of a plan, the Brotherhood were getting ready to implement Friday in Cairo and other districts with the purpose of inciting the public to take to the street. The "brothers," who would have worn semi-military uniforms and carried weapons during the demonstrations, which were planned in protest against some social issues, a security source said. It added that the street demonstrations were expected to lead to "some kind of civil disobedience." MENA stressed that the plan, which was to have been implemented by non-student elements, would have been hard to oppose once the street demonstrations started. |