Because of Freedom Must Endure chant, prosecution to detain of 8 of AL-Ahly supporters

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Because of Freedom Must Endure chant, prosecution to detain of 8 of AL-Ahly supporters

Publish Date : Monday, 12 March, 2018

Last Update : Wednesday, 14 March, 2018

High State Security Court has ordered the detention of 8 young supporters of the football team Ak-Ahly, 15 years pending investigation. The defendants are charged with “joining a terrorist group”, while some of them are accused of leading the group in lawsuit number 487/2018.

Police forces had arrested the defendants after Al-Ahly’s match against Munana, at Cairo stadium, on the 6th of March, for the defendants were chanting “Freedom must endure”.

Lawsuit included:

Ahmed Edris
Ahmed Khaled
Mahmoud Mostafa
Mohamed Saied Mohamed
Sohail Sabry Abd-Eltawab
Atef Khalid Ebrahim
Ahmed Mohamed Mahmoud
Sameh Zeidan

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