Egyptian police have arrested the Muslim Brotherhood’s main English-language spokesman, state media report.<\/p>\n
Gehad al-Haddad was reportedly found with at least one other Brotherhood official in a flat in Cairo.<\/p>\n
Mr Haddad had served as chief of staff of the Brotherhood’s deputy general guide, Khairat al-Shater, and often spoke to foreign media organisations.<\/p>\n
There has been a crackdown on Islamist groups since the military ousted President Mohammed Morsi in July.<\/p>\n
Earlier, the Cairo Criminal Court upheld an order to freeze the assets of senior figures in the Brotherhood and the former militant group Gamaa Islamiya, state media said.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors imposed the restrictions on the Brotherhood’s general guide, Mohammed Badie, Mr Shater and about a dozen others in July. Most have been detained over allegations of inciting violence and murder.<\/p>\n
Hundreds of people demanding Mr Morsi’s reinstatement, most of them Brotherhood members, were also killed in clashes when security forces stormed two protest camps in Cairo last month.<\/p>\n
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