The head of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Badie, is now the subject of an arrest warrant from Egypt’s state prosecutor.

Warrants were also issued for many other leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood. Badie and the other officials are accused of inciting the violence against a military compound Monday that resulted in the deaths of at least 50 people.

Brotherhood members said the warrants were nothing more than an attempt by the government to stop protests against “the military coup”.

A foreign ministry spokesman told reporters that former president Mohammed Morsi was moved to a “safe place” and is being treated “in a dignified manner.”

“For his own safety and for the safety of the country,” spokesman Badr Abdul Atti told reporters,”it is better to keep [Morsi] in a safe place. Otherwise, the consequences will be dire.”

He denied that Morsi was being held at the Presidential Guard barracks in Cairo as initially reported.

Government officials said that they would be offering positions in the transitional government to the Muslim Brotherhood’s “Freedom and Justice Party” but party officials have refused to take part in the interim government.