DHAKA: An Egyptian court on Tuesday sentenced 11 men to death for involvement in deadly soccer stadium violence in 2012.

One of the 11 men was sentenced in absentia, reports the Jerusalem Post.

In April the judge had referred the sentencing of the 11 to Egypt’s Grand Mufti, the country’s most senior religious authority, a step towards the death penalty.

BDST: 1901 HRS, JUNE 09, 2015
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