The detention of Salafist figure Hazem Salah Abu-Ismail, leading Muslim Brotherhood member Helmy El-Gazzar, former MP Mohamed Omda, Brotherhood lawyer Abdel-Moneim Abdel-Maqsoud and Wasat Party head Abu El-Ela Madi has been extended for another 15 days by prosecutors in Giza.

The detained face charges of inciting violence.

Security forces have embarked on a wave of arrests targeting Muslim Brotherhood leaders and members, as well as other Islamist political figures, since the crackdown on 14 August against sit-ins demanding the reinstatement of ousted president Mohamed Morsi.