UAE interrogates women linked to Brotherhood group

Attorney General of the state, Salem Saeed Kubaish, said today that women were being interrogated in connection with the plot "to seize power in the state".

Three Egyptian doctors were among the more than 10 people arrested recently for being a part of the secret organisation. that was allegedly planning to "overthrow regimes in the Arab states".

The Attorney General said that the 'women's organisation' was a fundamental part of the overall organisational structure of the group.

"The women under suspicion have been summoned and are being questioned with full respect for the right to privacy, the norms and the traditions of UAE society, in line with the rules and principles of Sharia, in the proceedings of the investigation," the official WAM news agency quoted Kubaish as saying.

The number of women being interrogated and their nationalities were not specified.

He stressed that "all rights of the above-mentioned women are guaranteed during the investigation stage, without prejudice to justice and equality of all before the law. The law does not differentiate between people on the basis of gender".

Investigators said at the time of the arrests that they were expecting the probe to reveal "serious information on conspiracies that were hatched against UAE state security" as well as the names of hundreds of people associated with the Brotherhood network.