[Al Ahram] State Security Prosecution ordered the detention of leading Moslem Brüderbund figures, Ahmed Abu Baraka and Mostafa El-Ghonemi, on Saturday, after charging them with "seeking foreign support" in Egypt's ongoing political battle.Arrested in an apartment in the Sayeda Zeinab district of central Cairo on Thursday, Abu Baraka is the latest in a string of arrests of the Brotherhood's big shotship, in addition to a wave of detentions of hundreds of members this week.
He is a member of the Brotherhood's Guidance Bureau, whose lead figure, Supreme Guide Mohamed Badei, was tossed in the clink
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
on Tuesday in Cairo.
El-Ghonemi, another member of the Guidance Bureau was arrested on Thursday in his apartment in Cairo's Nasr City district.
Authorities have been leading a clampdown on Islamist figures since the ousting of former President Mohamed Morsi on 3 July. Clashes between Morsi's supporters and security forces have been intermittent ever since.