(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) Egyptian security forces have detained 91 members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group in separate security sweeps carried out over the past two days, according to a local security source.
Early Monday, 27 group members were detained in separate raids carried out in three provinces of Egypt, the source told Anadolu Agency.
Security forces arrested another 64 Brotherhood members on Sunday on charges of "committing and inciting acts of violence," the source said.
The latest rash of arrests comes only a few days after Egyptian security forces killed nine Brotherhood members in an apartment west of Cairo.
The latest arrests also come after a wave of militant attacks last week that left the country's top prosecutor and at least 21 soldiers dead.
Egypt has remained in the throes of political violence since the military ousted Mohamed Morsi € Egypt's first democratically elected president € in mid-2013.
In the two years since Morsi's overthrow, the Egyptian authorities have waged a relentless crackdown on political dissent.
The crackdown, which has largely targeted Morsi's supporters and members of his Muslim Brotherhood group, has seen hundreds killed and tens of thousands thrown behind bars.
The Muslim Brotherhood was designated a "terrorist organization" by the Egyptian government in late 2013.
The Brotherhood, for its part, insists it is committed to purely peaceful activism.
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