[AnNahar] Egyptian police said they locked awayPlease don't kill me!
a senior figure and key financier of the banned Moslem Brüderbund on Thursday.
Businessman Hassan Malek was detained at his home in a suburb of Cairo, police sources said.
"The prosecution issued an arrest warrant for him, as he is implicated in several judicial cases," an interior ministry source said without elaborating.
In 2006, Malek was arrested under former president Hosni Mubarak
...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011...
Two years later a military tribunal sentenced him to prison, along with another businessman and Brotherhood number two, Khairat al-Shater, for financing a banned
...the word
bannedseems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organization.
While officially prohibited, the Brotherhood was tolerated under Mubarak and even ran candidates for office as independents.
Both men were freed in 2011 after the popular uprising that ousted Mubarak.
In 2013, then army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sissi overthrew Mubarak's successor, Mohammed Morsi, and totally proscribed the Brotherhood.
It also launched a crackdown on the group, in which many Islamists were killed, with thousands arrested and hundreds of them condemned to death in speedy mass trials.