By Xinhua
Cairo : The Egyptian authority on Thursday arrested 47 members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood on charges of staging illegal street protests, Egyptian security sources said.
Those members were arrested in six Egyptian governorates including Sharqiya, 65 km north to Cairo, sources told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
The Egyptian authority on Wednesday ordered that a number of Muslim Brotherhood members, who were arrested in several governorates including the northern Alexandria, be remanded in custody for 15 days pending investigations on charges of staging illegal street protests, the Egyptian MENA news agency reported.
They are also accused of joining an illegal group and spreading its radical ideology, the report added.
Officially banned in 1954 for its attempt to set up an Islamic government, Egypt’s biggest Islamic opposition group the Muslim Brotherhood won 88 seats in 454-member lower house of parliament after its members ran as independents in 2005 legislative elections.
An Egyptian constitutional amendments adopted by a national referendum in late March 2007 prohibited the forming of any political party on a religious bases.