Egyptian authorities have detained four leaders of a prominent activist group that played a role in the country’s 2011 revolution against former President Hosni Mubarak.
Four leaders of the April 6 Youth Movement, Sherif Arubi, Mohamed Nabil, Ayman Abdel Megid and Mahmud Hesham, were taken into custody on Monday morning, an Egyptian judicial official said.
“The four are accused of inciting violence” and will be held for 15 days under preventative detention, the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
The revolution was followed by the election of President Mohammed Morsi in 2013. Morsi, however, was deposed the same year by the then army chief and current President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi.
Many of Egypt’s most prominent activists have been jailed since the 2013 military coup.
Hundreds of the ex-president’s supporters, including Morsi himself, have also been sentenced to death after often speedy mass trials, which the United Nations has slammed as “unprecedented in recent history.”
