Security forces arrested the Muslim Brotherhood's supreme guide, Mohamed Badie, from an apartment in Nasr City on Tuesday, the interior ministry said on its official Facebook page. 

A Cairo prosecutor had ordered that Badie, his deputy Khairat al-Shater and Rashad Bayoumi as well as three others be referred to criminal court for investigations into allegations that they incited violence by the group’s Cairo office earlier this year. 

The necessary legal measures are currently being taken with the top leader of the Islamist group. 

Badie had described the authorities' crackdown on supporters of ousted President Mohamed Mursi as a "massacre" and "crime against humanity". 

Over 800 people have been killed since Egypt decided to disperse two protest camps held by Mursi's supporters.