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Thousands of supporters of the banned Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest Islamic group, protested across the country in an escalation of the opposition campaign demanding political reform. Police arrested hundreds of protesters. The protests took place in Cairo, several cities in the Delta and in Fayoum, south of Cairo.Security sources said police had detained about 80 protesters in El-Mansura and 100 in Zagazig, both in the Nile Delta north of Cairo, and 30 in El-Faiyum, to the southwest. Brotherhood officials reported many other detentions elsewhere. About 220 protesters were arrested during demonstrations in the Delta provinces of Sharqiya and Daqahliya and in Fayoum. |
