Khaled Hamza’s detention has been extended by the State Security Prosecutor, as expected:
The New Cairo-based state security prosecution ordered on Monday, March, 3rd, 2008, the detention of Khaled Hamza and 12 other Muslim Brotherhood (MB) members prolonged 15 days pending investigations. They have been arrested ahead of the Municipal elections scheduled to be held next April, 8th, 2008.
My thoughts go out to him, his family, and all political detainees in Mubarak’s prisons.
And while Western officials keep praising Mubarak’s “democracy,” the security crackdowns on the Muslim Brothers activists continues in different provinces:
At dawn on Monday security forces arrested 65 members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in Sharqeya, Kafr El-Sheikh, Sohag, Gharbeia, Giza, Qena, and Menoufiya, said a Brotherhood press statement.
The police official, speaking on customary condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media, confirmed Monday’s arrests.
