[An Nahar] Egyptian police on Thursday tossed in the clinkYez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
the Cairo bureau chief of an Iranian news station and a former Islamist politician, security officials said.
Ahmed Fahim Abdel Azim al-Suifi, the Egyptian head of the Cairo office of Iran's Arab-language station Al-Alam, was arrested in an apartment with ex-senate member Essam Ismail Farrag, the officials said.
They were arrested at the orders of prosecutors, the officials said without elaborating on the charges.
They were transferred for interrogation by the secretive National Security apparatus, which handles serious crimes against the state, one official said.
Thousands of Islamists have been arrested in a broad crackdown after the military overthrew President Mohammed Morsi
...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the
One Man, One Vote, One Timeprinciple, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator...
in July, sparking a backlash from his supporters.
Media organizations seen as sympathetic to the Islamists have also been targeted, including the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera
... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula,as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS...
broadcaster's Egypt affiliate.