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The prosecution gave no reason for their arrest, but alleged that they had confessed to having "deviant ideas and beliefs that have gone astray" from Islam and branded them as “eaters of cat and dog meat.”
They have been detained for 15 days while investigation continues into their case, the prosecution said. Under Egypt's emergency laws their detention can be renewed for another 15-day periods indefinitely without charge.
The group, which calls itself Gamaat Salim al-Faramawi, had accused the state and society at large of being "infidels" and had ruled it anti-Islamic to work for the government, the prosecution said.
They had also forbidden their followers to send their children to government schools or join the army and had deemed cat and dog meat halal (permitted) the prosecution said, quoting their confessions.
The group's leader, Mohammed Fathi Mahmud, was among those arrested in the crack-down, which took place in various Egyptian governorates. Mahmud is the son-in-law of the group's late founder, Muhammed Salim al-Faramawi, according to the prosecution.
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