Egyptian security forces arrested a senior member of an Islamist coalition backing ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi, state media reported on Wednesday.
Chief of the Islamic Independence Party, Magdi Hussein of the Muslim Brotherhood-led National Alliance in Support of Legitimacy, was arrested in Cairo on Tuesday, state-run newspaper al-Akhbar said.
Other Islamist leaders were also detained, the newspaper said without naming them.
The arrests were made upon warrants from prosecutors on charges of inciting violence and calling for protests, according to the report.
The pro-Morsi alliance has called for mass protests on Thursday marking the first anniversary of the army’s overthrow of the Islamist president.
Mr. Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president, is being tried on multiple criminal charges.
In December, the Egyptian government designated Mr. Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization for allegedly inciting deadly unrest.
The Islamist group has repeatedly denied links to violence, accusing authorities of oppression.
