Muslim Brotherhood Spokesman Held

Egyptian police have arrested the Muslim Brotherhood’s main English-language spokesman, state media report.

Gehad al-Haddad was reportedly found with at least one other Brotherhood official in a flat in Cairo.

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.

There has been a crackdown on Islamist groups since the military ousted President Mohammed Morsi in July.

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.

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.

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.

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