Essam El-Erian, deputy head of the Freedom and Justice Party, speaks during Egypt's Shura Council meeting in Cairo in this May 25, 2013 file picture. . REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Files
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian police fired teargas at protesting students at Cairo's al-Azhar university on Wednesday hours after authorities announced the detention of Muslim Brotherhood leader Essam El-Erian, part of a crackdown against the Islamist movement.
Erian, deputy leader of the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice party, was taken into custody from a residence in New Cairo, a suburb on the outskirts of the capital, where he had been in hiding, an interior ministry source told Reuters.
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