An Egyptian Premier League football team has suspended one of its top players for the rest of the season after he posted comments online critical of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi , media reports said.
Wadi Degla kept Ahmad al-Marghani on the bench from Thursday'sCairo derby with al-Ahly - days after he used Facebook to criticize the president's handling of the recent Takfiri militant attacksin Sinai, al-Araby reported.
The club later decided to suspend Margahani for the season for his comments.
“Everyone is dying, civilians, soldiers and policemen. Where are you from all of this? All we ever get from you is talk with no actions,” Merghany wrote on his Facebook page.
He called Sisi a "failure" and held him responsible for the killed servicemen in Sinai.
The comments come after 70 people, mostly soldiers, were killed by Takfiri militants south of the Sinai town of Sheikh Zuweid, northeast of the capital, Cairo, earlier this week.
Gunmen have intensified terrorist attacks in Sinai ever since Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically-elected president, was toppled in a military coup led by Sisi, the then army chief, in July 2013.
