Egyptian security forces arrested former-Islamist presidential candidate and current head of the Strong Egypt Party, Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, on Wednesday night for alleged ties with Egypt’s outlawed Muslim Brotherhood (MB), state news agency MENA reported. Aboul Fotouh was arrested from his home in New Cairo after the country’s state prosecution ordered his detention. According to the Strong Egypt Party, policemen dressed in civilian clothing approached his house with an arrest warrant. Aboul Fotouh was one of the leading presidential candidates in the country’s 2012 presidential election. Meanwhile, according to Human Rights Watch, thirteen local and international rights groups condemned Egypt’s presidential election on Tuesday, saying the race would “neither be free nor fair.”However, Egypt’s electoral commission vowed to run the election “according to principles of independence, transparency,and objectivity.”

Source: Egypt Independent February 15, 2018 10:52 UTC