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Egypt police arrest 110 Muslim Brotherhood members Mon Jun 12, 2006 12:39 PM BST 165 <http://i.today.reuters.co.uk/images/spacer.gif> CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian police arrested 110 members of the Muslim Brotherhood on Monday, and beat and teargassed others as they protested outside a courthouse in which a prominent Brotherhood member was on trial, sources said. The group's Web site and an eyewitness said thousands of police had surrounded the demonstrators in the large Nile Delta town of Zasgazig and had dispersed the crowd using sticks, teargas, rubber bullets and water cannons. The Web site said 10 demonstrators had been injured and 110 arrested but an eyewitness gave a higher figure. Egypt's Interior Ministry was not immediately available for comment. "The police attacked with sticks, teargas and water cannons. There were people injured through suffocation and beatings. People were taken to hospital," witness Nasser Nouri said. The protest was in support of Hassan el-Hayawan, who was on trial on charges of possessing firearms without a licence, obstructing voting and being a member of an illegal organisation. He was later acquitted. The Muslim Brotherhood is Egypt's strongest opposition group and is usually tolerated despite being banned as an illegal organisation. It fields parliamentary candidates as independents to side-step the ban. The arrests come shortly after U.S. lawmakers narrowly defeated a bid to cut aid to Cairo on Thursday, a move intended to show U.S. displeasure with Egypt's democratic setbacks. Egypt is the second largest recipient of U.S. aid after Israel. The United States publicly criticised Egypt three times last month for its harsh crackdown on political dissent. © Reuters 2006. All Rights Reserved. | <http://about.reuters.com/home/?WTmodLoc=NewsArt-C1-ArticlePage1-2> Learn more about Reuters [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Everything you need is one click away. Make Yahoo! your home page now. http://us.click.yahoo.com/AHchtC/4FxNAA/yQLSAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
