12 Muslim Brotherhood members arrested in Al-Buhira

On 26 September 2009, the following 12 people were arrested by State Security forces in Al-Buhira:

1. Mohamed Gamal Ahmed Heshmat (Assistant Professor, Institute of Medicine of the Alexandria University)
2. Mohamed Mohsen Ibrahim Swaidan (retired)
3. Hamdy Abdel Hamid Saad Obaid (Secretary General of the Union Doctors in Al-Bahira)
4. Hosni Omar Ali Omar (Civil Engineer at the Irrigation Directorate)
5. Mohamed Mohamed Ahmed Abu Al-Saad (Director, an executive for the Arab Contractors)
6. Mustafa Ismail Rizk Al-Kholi (a contract Engineer)
7. Mahdi Abdul-Hamid Mohammad Qersem (Doctor/Professor in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Alexandria University)
8. Adli Abdul Al-Qawy Mohammed Abu Shanaf (pharmacist)
9. Mohamed Sobhy Talaba Al-Tahan (retired)
10. Hamed Abdel Azim Mohamed Badawi (Financial & Adminstrative  Manager at Kom Hamada educational directorate)
11. Mohammed Abdullah Mohammad Al-Sharaky (Director of Elementary School Abu Zahra Homs)
12. Adil Mohammad Yunus Ibrahim (General Manager of company stores of industrial silk in Kafr El-Dawar)

This incident represents another concentrated effort by the Egyptian government against members of the Muslim Brotherhood. This incident is similar to that of the 15 accused of belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood arrested in Al-Bahira in late August 2009.

For more information (videos, pictures and articles in Arabic) on these cases, click on the following links:

http://www.brmasr.com/view_article.php?cat=body_news1&id=9072

http://www.egyptwindow.net/news_Details.aspx?News_ID=4920

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fij/message/9820

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpdrI7tW2vw&feature=player_embedded

Eight arrested in Munufeya under administrative orders

In addition, on 11 September 2009, in the Munufeya Governorate, the following eight individuals were arrested at dawn during State Security raids on their homes:

1. Fathi Al-Siroy
2. Tariq Al-Sharif
3. Abdel Al-Mu'ti Al-Nadiri
4. Sobhi Jafar
5. Hamdy Megahed
6. Mohammad Anis
7. Tamer Ahmed Mohamed
8. Ali Al-Said Naeel

The detainees are being kept in a State Security building in Munufeya and are subjected to inhumane conditions, lacking the basic necessities. None of them have yet been charged nor have they been presented to a judge.

Alkarama continues to monitor these cases.