Egyptian police arrested 110 members of the Muslim Brotherhood on Monday, and beat and teargassed others as they protested outside a courthouse in which a prominent Brotherhood member was on trial, sources said.
The group's Web site and an eyewitness said thousands of police had surrounded the demonstrators and had dispersed the crowd using sticks, teargas, rubber bullets and water cannons. It also reported that 10 demonstrators had been injured and 110 were arrested but an eyewitness gave a higher figure.
"The police attacked with sticks, teargas and water cannons. There were people injured through suffocation and beatings. People were taken to hospital," witness Nasser Nouri said.
The protest was in support of Hassan el-Hayawan, who was on trial on charges of possessing firearms without a licence, obstructing voting and being a member of an illegal organisation. He was later acquitted.
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