From Ikhwan Web…
The number of Muslim Brotherhood detainees has reached, in the last period, up to 515 detainees, mostly under provisional detention.
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State Security detain 33 MB students
From Ikhwan Web:
State security forces arrested 33 students from the Egyptian summer resort of Hanoville, Agamy, west of Alexandria , on Saturday at dawn, after raiding three flats which the students rented to spend three days holiday. The students belong to the Muslim Brotherhood group, 26 of them are engineering students at Ain Shams university, Cairo , and seven students are from the Alexandria University . One of the students contacted his friends and told them of the security raid and detentions.
SS raid blogger’s house
State Security has raided the house of 26-year-old Muslim Brotherhood blogger Muhammad Mosaad Yaqout, early Sunday, in Balteem:
Egyptian security forces raided on Sunday at dawn, June, 10, 2007, the house of the writer and blogger, Muhammad Mossad Yaqout. The security forces raided the blogger’s house in Baltym, Kafr Al-Sheikh, at 2.00AM and disheveled the house furniture, seized the computer and a number of papers and books and they are still hunting Yaqout.
Yaqout said in a phone call with Ikhwanweb that”The security forces want to arrest me because I support Ghobashi Al-Atawi and Ashraf Al Sayyed, the Muslim Brotherhood candidate in the Shura Council midterm elections for the constituency of Baltym. They want to detain me also because of my anti-regime writings.
Yaqout, 26 years, confirmed that the State Security Police has no arrest warrant and it wants to detain him illegally. Yaqout, a researcher and web editor, is country chased by the security forces on groundless accusations.