Egyptian undercover policemen detain protesters during a demonstration
organized by the group "No Military Trials for Civilians" in front of
the Shura council in downtown Cairo on November 26, 2013. Egyptian
prosecutors questioned a former lawmaker close to the Muslim Brotherhood
on Tuesday over claims he incited protesters to torture an alleged
government agent during the 2011 uprising. PHOTO | AFP
AFP
Egyptian prosecutors questioned a former
lawmaker close to the Muslim Brotherhood on Tuesday over claims he
incited protesters to torture an alleged government agent during the
2011 uprising, judicial sources said.
Mahmoud
El-Khodeiry, who is also a former appeals court judge, was arrested
during the night in Egypt's second city of Alexandria.
He
was questioned over allegations he "incited protesters to torture a
lawyer in (Cairo's) Tahrir Square whom he accused of being a state
security officer," during the mass protests that led to the overthrow of
veteran strongman Hosni Mubarak, judicial sources said.
The
Brotherhood's political arm, the Freedom and Justice Party, condemned
Khodeiry's arrest, the latest of thousands of arrests of Islamist
sympathisers since the army overthrew president Mohamed Morsi on July 3.
Nearly
all of the Brotherhood's top leadership has been detained and Morsi
himself has been put on trial on charges of inciting the killing of
protesters during his turbulent single year in power
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