EGYPT’S armed forces arrested former top general and presidential candidate Sami Annan today after the banned Muslim Brotherhood backed him.

Exiled Brotherhood leader Youssef Nada wrote an open letter to the former army chief of staff yesterday, setting out conditions for the movement’s support.

They included freeing Brotherhood ex-president Mohammed Morsi, imprisoned following the 2013 military coup d’etat that brought current President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi to power.