Jail sentences re-position Egyptian soccer as potential protest venue
By James M. Dorsey
An Egyptian court has sentenced 12 militant soccer fans to five years in prison in an expansion of the military-backed regime’s crackdown on its Islamist and non-Islamists opponents that could ultimately re-position soccer as a major platform of protest.
The fans, members of Ultras Ahlawy, the well-organized and street battled-hardened …
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