Cairo — Egyptian police captured Mohamed el-Beltagy, a senior Muslim Brotherhood official, on Thursday, Former labour minister Khaled al-Azhari was also held.
Beltagy, a former member of parliament and head of the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, was arrested in Giza governorate, just outside of the Egyptian capital, state television reported on Thursday.
Beltagi had urged Egyptians to join rallies against the military on Friday, in a recorded statement aired by the Qatari-owned Al Jazeera television news network this week.
Egyptian Police threatened to use live rounds at planned anti-government rallies, pressing ahead with a campaign that has thrown Egypt's oldest Islamist organisation into disarray.
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