Tables turned.<br/> <br />Egypt's highest prosecutor on Thursday called for the release of political prisoners who were held during the rule of the now embattled Muslim Brotherhood.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) PROSECUTOR GENERAL ABDEL MEGUID MAHMOUD SAYING:<br/> <br />''It is not fair and it is not just that the revolutionaries stay in jails and those who incited and encouraged their imprisonment to remain outside prison.''<br/> <br />General Abdel Meguid Mahmoud also called for a wider crackdown against the Muslim Brotherhood movement.<br/> <br />But the spokesman for the Brotherhood warned that Egypt was on the brink of becoming a "police state", after the arrest of its leader hours earlier.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (English) MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD SPOKESMAN, GEHAD EL-HADDAD, SAYING:<br/> <br />"We put full responsibility on every person that participated in that coup and empowered it to happen."<br/> <br />Near Cairo University, tensions remained high.<br/> <br />Under a heavy military presence, supporters of ousted President Mo
