Brotherhood MPs Released, Monofiya Detainees Jailed 15 Days

The Egyptian regime released two Brotherhood MPs whom it detained on Sunday, but it jailed other MB leaders rounded in the same raid.

Cairo state security prosecution released today MPs engineer Sabri Amer and Rajab Abu Zeid, who were arrested along with 12 citizens yesterday evening in the house of engineer Fathi Shehabuddin. The prosecution did not hold any investigation with them, saying the case of red-handedness for lifting a parliamentarian”s immunity as prescribed in the constitution doesn”t apply on the case of the two MPs, specially that the investigations with the detainees confirmed that they invited the MPs to know their opinion about the Shura Council elections.

In the same context, the state security prosecution decided to jail 12 Muslim Brotherhood leaders detained in Monofiya for 15 days pending trial .

For his part, lawyer Abdul Moneim Abdul Maqsoud said that releasing the two MPs is a right move because there is no real charges against the them.

Abdul Maqsood pointed out that detaining the two MPs while meeting some citizens was an unprecedented step in the history of the Egyptian People”s Assembly; the security has seemingly realized the seriousness of this step and backpedaled and released both MPs .

Abdul Maqsood added in a statement to Ikhwanweb that the decision of releasing the two MPs is a clear evidence that the other detainees are innocent and should be released; if there had been any real evidence, the state security prosecution wouldn”t have released the two MPs .