{"id":14506,"date":"2013-08-30T00:59:55","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T16:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buletinonline.net\/v7\/?p=14506"},"modified":"2013-08-30T00:59:55","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T16:59:55","slug":"mohamed-el-beltagy-detained-by-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/mohamed-el-beltagy-detained-by-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohamed el-Beltagy detained by police"},"content":{"rendered":"

Egyptian police have arrested Mohamed el-Beltagy, a senior leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, the latest arrest in a widening campaign against the group.<\/p>\n

Beltagy, a former member of parliament and head of the Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party, was arrested in Giza governorate, just outside of the Egyptian capital, state television reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Beltagy was wanted on accusations that he incited violence and has been hunted by authorities for nearly three weeks.<\/p>\n

\"mohammed_el_beltagy\"<\/a>In a videotaped message aired by Al Jazeera earlier this week, he said that authorities were trying to turn a “political crisis” into a security problem by accusing his group of orchestrating a terrorism campaign.<\/p>\n

“Don’t be fooled by these lies and deception that aim to label us with terrorism, violence, [and] killing … at a time when the hands of the coup regime are drowned in blood,” Beltagy said.<\/p>\n

He went into hiding earlier this month after authorities violently broke up protest encampments held by supporters of President Mohamed Morsi, who was overthrown by the military on July 3 after days of mass protests against him. Hundreds died in the crackdown, including Beltagy’s daughter, Asmaa.<\/p>\n

Most of the Brotherhood’s top leadership has been arrested in the nearly two months since Morsi’s ouster.<\/p>\n

The group’s general guide, Mohamed el-Badie, was arrested earlier this month. He is facing criminal charges for inciting violence, as is his deputy, Rashad al-Bayoumi; the group’s top strategist, Khairat al-Shater; and several other senior officials.<\/p>\n

Morsi himself has been held nearly incommunicado since he was forced from office.<\/p>\n

More than 60 other members of the organisation have been detained over the past few days, including relatives of senior leaders.<\/p>\n

The son of Khairat el-Shater, the Brotherhood’s top strategist, was arrested this week, as was Mohamed Soltan, a US citizen who is the son of outspoken Brotherhood leader Salah Soltan.<\/p>\n

The Muslim Brotherhood was banned for decades under former president Hosni Mubarak. It set up a political party following the 2011 revolution, and moved to legalise its status as a non-governmental organisation, though members now fear Egypt’s new army-backed government will try to ban the group once again.-al-Jazeera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Egyptian police have arrested Mohamed el-Beltagy, a senior leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, the latest arrest in a widening campaign against the group. Beltagy, a former member of parliament and head of the Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party, was arrested in Giza governorate, just outside of the Egyptian capital, state television reported on Thursday. Beltagy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"better_featured_image":{"id":14508,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":680,"height":450,"file":"2013\/08\/2013829145623917734_20.jpg","filesize":134005,"sizes":{},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1377798816","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1","keywords":[]}},"post":14506,"source_url":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013829145623917734_20.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}