Egyptian security forces arrest senior Muslim Brotherhood leader

SANAA, Aug. 28 (YPA) – Egypt’s interior ministry confirmed in a statement on Friday that it had arrested a Muslim Brotherhood leader Mahmoud Ezzat during a raid on an apartment in a residential area of Cairo.

According to the statement, Mahmoud Ezzat was arrested at an apartment in the New Cairo neighbourhood east of the capital “after monitoring his movement for a while”.

The statement revealed how Brotherhood leader Mahmoud Ezzat has communicated with the Muslim Brotherhood at home and abroad to carry out his plans all these years.

“Security forces found “a number of computers, mobile phones with encrypted programs to secure his communications and management of the leaders and members of the organisation inside and outside the country,” the statement read.

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