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CAIRO (AFP) - A jailed newspaper editor, Magdi Hussain, will "run" from behind bars in next month's parliamentary elections, colleagues said Sunday, as other Islamists vowed to run as individuals to circumvent a ban on their Labor party.
Hussein, managing editor of the Islamist newspaper Al-Shaab, will run for a seat in the suburban Cairo neighborhood of Manial, the paper's deputy editor Talaat Romeih said. "Magdi Hussein submitted his candidacy from prison" in southern Cairo where he began serving a two-year term in April for slandering Agriculture official Yussef Wali, Romeih said in a statement. Meanwhile, the Muslim Brotherhood stated that it "denounces the ferocious campaign of arrests" launched against the group by the security services "in the run up to the elections" starting October 18th, a separate statement stated. The Muslim Brotherhood, founded in 1929, is considered the main opposition force in Egypt. The movement is accused of encouraging violence, but states it is using peaceful means to try to establish an Islamic state. The Brotherhood said recently that 700 of its members have been arrested in the last few months, with 250 still detained. In a statement, the Brotherhood said its members will run on an "individual basis," adding "by deciding to prosecute, detain and deprive the Brotherhood of exercising their rights and taking part in the elections, the security services are just using the weapon of excluding the other." A pro-government election watchdog, the Parties Committee, decided to suspend the Labor Party and its newspaper Al-Shaab, which cited splits within Labor the government was accused of creating. Al-Shaab said earlier this month that it was still effectively banned despite a court ruling ordering its reappearance. |
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