MB leader Sultan arrested, referred to State Security

Muslim Brotherhood leader Salah Sultan was arrested in the Cairo International Airport as he was attempting to leave for Sudan on Sunday night.

Airport authorities referred Sultan to State Security Prosecution, the German news agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) reported on Monday.

Sultan was transferred to the prosecution amid heightened security. He is facing charges in three different cases, security forces said, including inciting violence in Ramses Square last August in the aftermath of the deadly crackdown on Brotherhood sit-ins at Rabea al-Adaweya Mosque and Nahda Square.

Sultan was dismissed from his position as secretary general of the Higher Council for Islamic Affairs by Endowments Minister Mokhtar Gomaa after the latter assumed his post in the Cabinet reshuffle following former President Mohamed Morsi’s ouster.  

On August 16, clashes raged between Morsi's supporters and security forces across the country during Brotherhood-organized protests called "the Friday of Wrath," two days following the forcible dispersal of their sit-ins by the army and the police.

In Cairo, the clashes were centered at Ramses Square, Al-Fath Mosque and the Azbakeya Police Station after groups of protesters attempted to storm the building.

The Cabinet claimed 137 died in the course of the August 16 violence, 95 of whom were killed in Cairo.