CAIRO
Egyptian security forces on Tuesday arrested Yasser Ali, a former spokesman of ousted president Mohamed Morsi, on charges of violence and joining a "terrorist group", a security source said.
According to the source, Ali was arrested in an apartment in the capital Cairo as he was preparing to "flee" Egypt to Sudan.
Ali, who served as the head of the Egyptian Cabinet's Information and Decision Support Center, showed no resistance and was taken to the maximum-security Tora prison compound in southern Cairo, where he will be questioned for security reasons, the source said.
Last week, the Egyptian government designated the Muslim Brotherhood, from which Morsi hails, a "terrorist" group following a deadly bombing at a security headquarters in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura, which killed 16 people, mostly policemen.
The attack was later claimed by the militant Ansar Bait al-Maqdis.
By Islam Mosaad
englishnews@aa.com.tr
