Brotherhood Official Dies in Detention in Egypt

A senior Muslim Brotherhood official died in Egypt on Wednesday after more than a year in detention, the interior ministry said. 

Farid Ismail, a former lawmaker and official in the Freedom and Justice Party, the Brotherhood's political arm, died in a Cairo hospital of liver failure aged 58, medical and police officials said. 

The ministry said Ismail's death had received treatment for liver cirrhosis and Hepatitis C. 

The authorities have cracked down on members and supporters of the Islamist movement since July 2013, when the army ousted president Mohamed Morsi, Egypt's first freely-elected leader.

A police crackdown targeting Morsi supporters, meanwhile, has left more than 1,400 people dead and thousands imprisoned.