Egypt Arrests Muslim Brotherhood Spokesperson

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　　Egyptian police have arrested the spokesperson for the Muslim Brotherhood¹.

 

　　It's being reported Ahmed Aaref has been arrested in his father-in-law's apartment in the Nasr City district of Cairo.

 

　　The location of the arrest is near one of the sites where supporters of deposed² President Mohamed Morsi had been staging their sit-in, which was eventually broken up by police earlier this month.

 

　　Aaref is being held in the same facility as Brotherhood top leader Mohamed Badie is being held.

 

　　The heavily guarded prison is also holding a number of other leading Brotherhood figures.

 

　　Meanwhile, the Europrean Union has decided³ to suspend the export of weapons and other security items to Egypt in the wake of what's been taking place in the country.

 

　　EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.

 

　　"Member states have agreed to suspend export licenses⁴ to Egypt of any equipment used for internal repression⁵, and to reassess their export licenses covered by the EU common position."

 

　　The EU is maintaining its aid programs.

 

　　The EU is Egypt's biggest trading partner and a major source of aid, loans and tourists.

 

　　The EU and its member states last year pledged a combined 5 billion euros in loans and aid for Egypt.

 

　　Still in Egypt, a court in Cairo has ordered deposed former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak can be moved from prison.

 

　　However, it's being reported the 85-year old will be placed under house arrest, rather than being freed outright⁶.

 

　　Mubarak is still awaiting a retrial in connection with the killing⁷ of protesters in 2011 which eventually led to his ouster.

 

　　However, all other charges against him have been dismissed.

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