Egyptian death sentence for soccer fans puts president’s iron grip to the test
By James M. Dorsey
Egyptian-general-turned-president Abdel Fattah al Sisi’s iron grip on dissident is likely to be put to the test with the sentencing to death of 11 soccer fans for involvement in a politically loaded football brawl three years ago that left 74 militant supporters of storied Cairo club Al Ahli SC dead.
The brawl and the subsequent sentenc…
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