Prominent Egyptian Islamist critic arrested ahead of March vote
(World News Egypt)

CAIRO: Egyptian security forces detained a former Islamist presidential candidate on Wednesday for alleged contacts with the banned Muslim Brotherhood, the state news agency MENA said, the latest opposition figure to be rounded up ahead of March elections. MENA said state security prosecutors ordered the arrest of Abdel Moneim Abol Fotouh and several leaders of his Strong Egypt party a day after he returned from London where he had given interviews highly critical of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The party members were later released, one of them said. But Abol Fotouh remained in detention and was referred to the public...