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Egypt Arrests 45 Members of Banned Islamic Group
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Arrests include some leading members of country's biggest
opposition group Egyptian authorities have arrested at least 45
members of the Muslim Brotherhood, the country's biggest opposition
group.

News reports from Cairo say the arrests took place late Saturday, and
include some of the group's leading members.

The Brotherhood had planned to demonstrate outside the Egyptian
parliament building Sunday to call for political reforms.

Several thousand riot police sealed off streets around the building in
central Cairo. But the group still gathered for a rally at a mosque a
few kilometers away.

The Muslim Brotherhood calls for replacing Egypt's secular government
with an Islamic state. The group was formally banned in 1954, but its
members, running in elections as independents, hold enough seats to
make the Brotherhood the largest opposition group in the Egyptian
parliament.

Some information for this report provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.


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