South Giza Prosecution renewed detention of 191 suspects affiliated to the Muslim Brotherhood for 45 days pending investigations over involvement in assaulting police and governmental establishments in the aftermath of dispersing Rabaa al-Adaweya and Nahda squares in August.
Prosecution accused the suspects of killing, joining a terrorist group that aims to harm public security, hampering laws and the constitution, storming into police establishments and public properties.
Prosecution rejected request of the suspects’ defense to release them. The defense added that some suspects occupy prominent posts and did not commit violence but were arrested randomly for joining a specific political current.
Investigators say that 91 Muslim Brotherhood members are involved in burning premises of Cairo University’s Faculty of Engineering and possessing weapons and molotovs. Other 70 suspects took part in breaking into Atfeeh and Ayyat police stations, burning them and stealing its contents.
Seventeen suspects are allegedly involved in clashes that took place between police and the Brotherhood at al-Husary square in 6 October city leaving a citizen killed. Another 13 were allegedly involved in attempted murder of conscripts and security elements while attacking the city police station.
Investigators also say that Mohamed Badie, the Muslim Brotherhood supreme guide, met in Rabaa al-Adaweya mosque on 11 August with leaders of some of the extremist Islamist groups to agree on spreading chaos and violence nationwide, in case the Interior Ministry forcibly dispersed the sit-in. Investigators also claim instructions were given to attack the governmental establishments to depict incidents in the country as civil war after ousting the president, though they have not yet provided evidence.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
