Man charged with being member of Islamic State

(BBC) A 23-year-old man has been charged with being a member of the Islamic State group.

Abdullah Yousef, of Galapagos Grove in Bletchley, Milton Keynes, was arrested on 16 December and charged with a string of terrorism offences on Monday.

Mr Yousef was charged with one count of membership of a proscribed organisation, one count of possession of information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism, and four counts of dissemination of a terrorist publication.

He was charged by officers from Counter Terrorism Policing South East and has been remanded in custody to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday.

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