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Brotherhood official Mohamed Osama said police took 44 men at dawn from their homes. A security source who spoke on condition of anonymity said police took away 41 Brotherhood members.
Some of them were planning to run as candidates in the council elections, expected in April or May, and others were active in campaign preparations, the source added.
Cyprus
President Fails to Make Final Round of Election
President Tassos Papadopoulos was eliminated Sunday from Cyprus's presidential runoff, in a major surprise that saw three candidates neck-and-neck until the last minute.
The election, which will now be determined in a Feb. 24 second round, is seen as pivotal to the decades-old search for a deal to reunify the ethnically divided island -- a division that has proved to be a major stumbling block to Turkey's efforts to join the European Union.
Communist Party leader Demetris Christofias, 61, and 59-year-old former foreign minister Ioannis Kasoulides of the DISY party will vie for the five-year presidency. Papadopoulos, 74, had been widely expected to advance to the second round.
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