CAIRO: Security forces arrested 54 deputy leaders and members of the Muslim Brotherhood, in a recent crackdown on the group. The arrests started Wednesday night in Cairo, where seven members were taken from their homes in Al-Moqattam including Sayed Nazily, head of the Brotherhood's office in Giza, Brotherhood deputy leader Hamdi Ibrahim and Mohieldin Al-Zayat, physician and professor at Ain Shams University. The Ministry of Interior issued a detention order for 11 Brotherhood deputy leaders, including Mahmoud Hussein, a prominent member in the group's head office in Upper Egypt, after the Cairo Criminal Court had ordered their release. In Daqahliya, another three members from the group were detained on Thursday. Around 33 members were also arrested in Suez last week. Abdel Moneim Abdel Maqsoud, Brotherhood lawyer, said, "This campaign is like all the ones that came before it and is part of the government's trend in challenging the laws and court orders, adding that the arrests were not "justified and violate the Egyptian constitution.
