In this file photo taken on May 24, 2011 then Egyptian presidential candidate and reformist member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh, speaks during an interview with AFP at his office at the doctors' syndicate in Cairo. AFP / Khaled Des
CAIRO: Egypt's official news agency says police have arrested six suspected Muslim Brotherhood members on a farm allegedly owned by a recently detained Islamist politician.
The state-run MENA agency quoted an unnamed security official on Wednesday as saying the farmland in the Nile Delta province of Beheira belongs to Abdel-Monaem Abul Fetouh.
Abul Fetouh was arrested last week, after his return from a trip to London. He was ordered detained for two weeks pending completion of an investigation.
He was a longtime Brotherhood member, but quit the group in 2011 to run for president in the 2012 election won by President Mohamed Morsi.
Morsi's rule proved divisive, and a year later the military overthrew him and launched a crackdown on his supporters.
The government later declared the Brotherhood a terrorist group.
