Security services on Tuesday morning arrested 45 members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in six different Egyptian cities, charging them with holding "illegal organizational meetings."
MB sources said the crackdown aimed to weaken the group's chances in this year's parliamentary race. "They arrested group members with expertise in campaigning for elections," said the group's lawyer Abdel Moneim Abdel Maqsoud.
More than 1000 students at Daqahliya University staged demonstrations to protest the arrests.
