More Brotherhood members arrested in fresh Egyptian swoop

Security forces on Monday arrested more members of the embattled Muslim Brotherhood group in a fresh swoop in four Egyptian provinces. Two Brotherhood members were arrested in the canal city of Suez on charges of committing violence and attacking facilities following the August 14 dispersal of two sit-ins staged by anti-coup groups in which hundreds were killed. Three leading Brotherhood members were also detained in the Nile Delta's Sharqiya province on charges of inciting riots and violence. Security forces also arrested a Brotherhood member in the southern Fayoum province on charges of storming a police station. In the southern Beni Sueif province, meanwhile, seven group members were arrested on charges of inciting the burning of government facilities. Egyptian authorities have unleashed a massive crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood leaders and members since the bloody dispersal one month ago of two pro-democracy protest camps. Since then, Egypt's military-backed authorities have rounded up hundreds of the group's senior and mid-ranking members, topped by Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and deputies Khairat al-Shater and Rashad al-Bayoumi. Egyptian army ousted country's first freely elected President Muhamed Morsi in July.