Former football star Mohamed Aboutrika has been added to the Egyptian authorities' terror list by a court, based on suspicions that he has provided financing for the now banned Muslim Brotherhood group, his lawyer said on Tuesday. In 2015, a government committee froze the assets of Aboutrika, who had played for Cairo-based club Al-Ahly and Egypt's national team, two years after he retired. Aboutrika, one of the most successful African footballers of his generation, had publicly endorsed the presidential bid of Mohamed Morsi in 2012. In an interview with state-run newspaper Al-Ahram in May 2015, Aboutrika denied that his company -- or any of his partners -- had ever funded the Islamist movement. Aboutrika retired in 2013, and the 37-year-old has since avoided expressing his political views publicly.

Source: Egypt Independent January 18, 2017 09:00 UTC