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Major Setback For Hopes Of Democratic Reform In Egypt
In the first escalation against the Muslim Brotherhood after the People’s Assembly (legislative) elections and the Brotherhood’s success in winning 88 seats, State security forces have arrested 7 leading young leaders of the Brotherhood, today, Friday, 03 March 2006, in addition to Dr. Rashad el-Bayyoumi, Member of the leading Muslim Brotherhood organ, the Guidance Bureau, and Supervisor of its Sttudent Section.
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In the first escalation against the Muslim Brotherhood after the People’s Assembly (legislative) elections and the Brotherhood’s success in winning 88 seats, State security forces have arrested 7 leading young leaders of the Brotherhood, today, Friday, 03 March 2006, in addition to Dr. Rashad el-Bayyoumi, Member of the leading Muslim Brotherhood organ, the Guidance Bureau, and Supervisor of its Student Section.
State security forces, supported by large numbers of central security (anti-riot) troops, stormed the house of Engineer Abdel-Meguid Mashali, member of Mansoura University’s Student Union till 1994 and a then prominent student leader, together with six other leaders of student unions. They include Ahmad Abdel-Gawwad, grandson of the former general guide of the Brotherhood, Mr. Mustafa Mashhour; Dr. Mohamed Abdel-Wahab, professor at Zagazig University; Anas el-Kadi, a student who was arrested in the events in which the security forces killed Mohamed el-Sakka in 2002; Mohamed el-Saieed, a science teacher in Gharbia governorate; el-Sayed el-Showeikhy from Dakahliya governorate; and Atef El-Arian. Dr. Rashad el-Bayyoumi is a professor of geology at the Faculty of Science, Cairo University. He was born in 1935, got acquainted with the Muslim Brotherhood during the Palestine war period (1948) and was in charge of the students activity at the university at that time. He was detained in the 1954 repression against the Brotherhood and remained in detention till 1971. He was detained once again in the case judged by a military court, under the emergency law, in 1996 and was acquitted. He was detained again toward the end of 2002 for 4 months following the wide-scale student activity in support of the Palestinian uprising at the time. He was elected as a member of the Guidance Office in 1995 and has since been the supervisor of the Students’ Section. A Message of Intimidation Dr. Mohamed Habib, First Deputy of the Brotherhood’s General Guide considers this escalation as a message of intimidation to the Egyptian people who cast their ballots in the elections and stood beside Muslim Brothers, suffering as a result from government repression and brutality. It is also a message to political forces in general so as to stop their political movement. It is further a message to the Brotherhood deputies in parliament so as to mitigate their pressure and tone down their discussions and inquiries against the government.
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tags: MB Students / State Security / MB Detainees / Reform / Habib
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