The recent announcement of MB candidates fielded to run in the elections has triggered even further arrests by state security.

Former Shura Candidates warned of a re-run of the sham which took place in June's mid-term Shura Council elections in the forthcoming parliamentary elections.

The Ministry of Interior once again has demonstrated human rights violations and defiance by ignoring release orders issued by court

Security forces arrest and detain Sharqiya's Shura candidate Mahmoud Seif Sobh during a publicity campaign and surround Eid Dahroug's residence also from Sharqiya, banning him from performing the Friday prayers

The committee supervising the Shura Council's elections for 2010 excluded Mahmoud Seif, Sobh, and the Muslim Brotherhood's nominee from the Sharqiya governorate.

For the second consecutive time the Egyptian judiciary has issued release orders to MB members

The wave of arrests, primarily carried out in pre-dawn raids continues in Egypt's governorates.

Abdel-Monem Abdel-Maksoud, the Muslim Brotherhood's lawyer, condemned the imprisonment of a number of leading MB leaders, indicating it was an infringement of the Constitution.

Muslim Brotherhood leaders were arrested from their homes earlier this morning. After Friday prayers today, 53 protestors were arrested outside Abu Magda Mosque in Al-Ismaliya and 70 more in Maidan

Prosecutors commence investigations with the 42 MB detainees who were arrested from their homes at dawn by state security.