Aswan Sporting Club player arrested for joining IS

CAIRO – 5 October 2017: A player at Aswan Sporting Club was arrested on Thursday over charges of joining the terrorist group of Islamic State(IS) .The defendant faces charges relating joining and communicating with the terrorist group, plotting to target vital entities and antagonizing state authorities.

Similarly, a college student was arrested due to joining ISIS last August. A 25-minute video recently circulated on social media platforms revealed that the student, Mohamed Magdy al-Dalaay, had joined the Islamic State (IS) militant group, despite widespread claims that he has been abducted by security forces.

Dalaay appeared in the video with the moniker Mosaab al-Masry and was reciting hateful words and subversive ideas to entice chaos in the Egyptian society.

Since the ouster of ex-Muslim Brotherhood President Muhammed Morsi, Egypt sees severe, ever-mounting spates of extremism.