Egyptian football star placed on ‘terror’ list

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Egyptian Former football start Mohamed Aboutrika.(AFP)


CAIRO: An Egyptian court has added former football star Mohamed Aboutrika to the authorities’ terror list, his lawyer said Tuesday, based on suspicions he financed the banned Muslim Brotherhood.

In 2015 a government committee froze the assets of the former player for Cairo-based club Al-Ahly and Egypt’s national team, two years after he retired.

The government accuses him of financing the Muslim Brotherhood, which was classified as a terrorist organization at the end of 2013.

According to an anti-terror law imposed in 2015 by President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, anyone on the country’s terror list is subject to a travel ban, with their passport and assets liable to be frozen.

Aboutrika, one of the most successful African footballers of his generation, had publicly endorsed the presidential bid of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Muhammad Mursi in 2012.

Mursi went on to become Egypt’s first democratically elected president, only for the army to oust him one year later and ban the Brotherhood.

Aboutrika’s lawyer Mohamed Osman said that the court’s decision was “contrary to the law” saying the retired player “has not been convicted or formally notified of any of the charges against him.”

“We will appeal this decision,” he said, adding that “if he is added to the list there will be many legal consequences, notably the travel ban.”

The freeze on Aboutrika assets is still in force, despite two court orders that it be lifted, Osman added.
In an interview with state-run Al-Ahram newspaper in May 2015, Aboutrika denied that his company — or any of his partners — had ever funded the Islamist movement.

Since Mursi’s overthrow, a police crackdown against the Brotherhood has left hundreds dead and thousands jailed.

Aboutrika retired in 2013, and the 37-year-old has since avoided expressing his political views publicly.


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[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

The player is a very prominent star in Egypt

 

[Kuwaiti Girl]

Everyone's a terrorist in the eyes of Middle Eastern governments these days. It's the best way for the Middle Eastern autocracies to silence dissent.

The only two sane and fully democratic countries in the region right now are Israel and Tunisia.

 

[HAIDER]

Everyone's a terrorist in the eyes of Middle Eastern governments these days. It's the best way for the Middle Eastern autocracies to silence dissent.

The only two sane and fully democratic countries in the region right now are Israel and Tunisia.

I think people are good , but ruling class is using iron fist to prolong there authority. Sooner or later democracy will bring fresh and peaceful change.

 

[The SC]

Egypt is a democracy, but it is not easy to be one when you have terrorist acts occurring very regularly, Egypt just had one General assassinated in Cairo, one special forces commander and his guards assassinated in Sinai as well as hundreds of police officers and border guards in Sinai also..
The Egyptian internal security apparatus is a very experienced and sophisticated agency, unfortunately for the football champion they must have some sound evidence of his implication with the MB.. but there are laws, so the state can accuse him and he can deny till incontestable evidence is brought in, still sometimes states can not divulge their sources and things get complicated, but they can always provide some eavesdropping material as evidence..
I for one never thought that MB would be declared a terrorist organization and was saddened when it happened.. but these times we live in and all what is happening in and around Egypt might have justified it for the supreme cause of the state and public safety..

 

[HAIDER]

Muslim world need a workable judicial system . .........transparent.

 

[MICA]

Lets all see what is court reasons then judge , however we all know abo trieka so it's kinda a stupid decision that no one will support

 

[mike2000 is back]

Egypt is a democracy, but it is not easy to be one when you have terrorist acts occurring very regularly, Egypt just had one General assassinated in Cairo, one special forces commander and his guards assassinated in Sinai as well as hundreds of police officers and border guards in Sinai also..
The Egyptian internal security apparatus is a very experienced and sophisticated agency, unfortunately for the football champion they must have some sound evidence of his implication with the MB.. but there are laws, so the state can accuse him and he can deny till incontestable evidence is brought in, still sometimes states can not divulge their sources and things get complicated, but they can always provide some eavesdropping material as evidence..
I for one never thought that MB would be declared a terrorist organization and was saddened when it happened.. but these times we live in and all what is happening in and around Egypt might have justified it for the supreme cause of the state and public safety..

Agree, MB is an Islamic extremist/Terrorist group that should be eradicated in Egypt. They have targeted many Egyptian officials together with their offshoot Hamas this past year where they even went as far as assassinating Egypt's top prosecutor.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/03/...od-backed-by-hamas-killed-top-prosecutor.html

These terror groups should be hunted down so the region can be stable'