CAIRO: The Egyptian interim Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi has proposed legally dissolving the Muslim Brotherhood, the government spokesman said on Saturday, adding that the idea is being mulled.
The threat comes after the Islamist movement called for a week of nationwide protests from Saturday after three days of clashes with security forces that left hundreds of people killed and injured.
Beblawi proposed the dissolution to the minister of social affairs who heads up the ministry tasked with licensing non-governmental organisations. “It is being studied currently,” the spokesman Sherif Shawky said.
On the other hand, Egyptian security officials said that brother of al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahri, Mohamed al-Zawahiri, has been arrested in Giza for supporting Mohamed Morsi
While Muslim Brotherhood claimed that the son of Egypt’s dominant Islamist movement’s chief has been killed.
Ousted President Mohamed Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood brought tens of thousands of people to the streets across the country following traditional Muslim prayers in what it called a “Friday of Rage.”
But violent clashes broke out in Cairo and other cities in which 173 persons were killed, including some police and members of the security forces, bringing the official death toll from the violence to more than 800 since Wednesday, when security forces evicted two large pro-Morsi sit-in camps in Cairo.
Protesters have been demanding the reinstatement of deposed President Mohamed Morsi‚ whose detention was extended for another 30 on Thursday.
“Our rejection of the coup regime has become an Islamic, national and ethical obligation that we can never abandon,” the Brotherhood said in a statement.
