CAIRO: Egyptian court has sentenced 11 to death over football stadium violence in which 70 people were killed and over 1000 injured in 2012.
The Court, whose session was broadcasted live sentenced one of them to death in absentia. While 10 others got 15 years jail, 14 sentenced to 10 years, and 15 men received five-year sentence.
The judge had referred the death sentence in April to Grand Mufti Shawqi Allam. The Mufti approved of the 11 defendants’ death sentences.
