The top leader of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood arrested in Cairo

File photo taken on May 24, 2012 shows General Guide of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Mohamed Badie (C) at a polling station during the presidential election in Beni Suef, Egypt. Mohamed Badie was arrested by police in Cairo, official news agency MENA reported early Tuesday, citing a security source. (Photo : Xinhua/STR)

General Guide of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Mohamed Badie was arrested by police in Cairo, official news agency MENA reported early Tuesday, citing a security source. He has been transferred with intensive security measures to Torah prison, where former President Hosni Mubarak and his two sons are detained, the report said.

Badie was arrested in an apartment in Tayran street in northeastern Nasr City district of Cairo. The street is just behind Rabaa al-Adawiya Square, one of the two sites where supporters of deposed President Mohamed Morsi used to rally.

Also, two Brotherhood leading members, Youssef Talaat and Hassan Maleik, were arrested along with Badie. On July 4, just one day after the ouster of Morsi, Egyptian acting prosecutor general Ahmed Ezz el-Din ordered an arrest warrant against the Brotherhood top leader over charges of inciting the killing of anti-Morsi protesters.

Badie’s deputy, Kirate El-Shater, was also on the arrest warrant, as investigations revealed that they had hired thugs to kill Morsi’s opponents at the Brotherhood’s headquarters in Cairo’ s Muqattam district. <Xinhua/NEWSis>