A criminal court in Egypt’s coastal city of Port Said has sentenced 11 people to death over a 2012 soccer riot that left more than 70 dead and several hundreds injured.
Tuesday’s verdict came at the end of the retrial of 73 defendants in a case >that sparked deadly riots in 2013 in Port Said , prompting then President Mohammed Morsi to declare a state of emergency in the city.
Also Tuesday, the court sentenced 40 defendants to up to 15 years in prison and acquitted the rest.
The verdicts can be appealed.
The >February 2012 riot began at the end of a league match in Port Said between Cairo’s al-Ahly, Egypt’s most successful club, and home side el-Masry. It was Egypt’s worst soccer disaster and among the world’s deadliest.
