Hossam el-Hamalawy
I received the following statement from HRINFO:
HRINFO has condemned today the escalation of the persecutory measures conducted by the security services in Egypt as it denied Dr. Essam Erian his right to travel and then arrested him with 15 other individuals. The deputy of state security ordered their imprisonment for 15 days.
From Ikhwan Web:
Egyptian security forces has maintained its crackdown against the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), including the Egyptian coastal governorate of Alexandria. The security services launch this crackdown nationwide after the MB announced its plans for declaring the program of its future political party. The security forces arrested on Sunday dawn, August, 19th, 2007:
Engineer Muhammad Ibrahim, a member of Alex. administrative office and MB Alex. deputy official, Engineer Saleh Batawi, MB leader in the governorate, Gamal Shouman, MB leader in the governorate. Hamdi Rashed, MB leader in the governorate, Muhammad Othman, MB leader in the governorate, Alaa Mutaweh, MB leader in the governorate.
And here’s a report by Dream TV on the earlier arrests: