Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Top Leader Arrested Tuesday Aug 20,2013

Egypt's military-backed authorities arrested the supreme leader of the country's Muslim Brotherhood on Tuesday Aug 20,2013 dealing a serious blow to the Islamist group at a time when it is struggling to keep up street protests against the ouster of President Mohammed Morsi in the face of a harsh government crackdown.
The Brotherhood's spiritual guide, Mohammed Badie, was arrested in an apartment in the Cairo district of Nasr City.His arrest followed the killing of his son Ammar, who was shot dead during violent clashes between security forces and Morsi supporters in Cairo

Badie and his powerful deputy, Khairat el-Shater, are to stand trial later this month on charges of complicity in the killing in June of eight protesters outside the Brotherhood's national headquarters in Cairo

Badie was taken to Torah prison in a suburb south of Cairo, where a team of prosecutors was questioning him, security officials said