Hardcore football fan group Ultras Ahlawy announced on Monday that it is freezing its activities for an unspecified period after alleged unnamed “foreign channels” attempted to exploit its situation to cause harm to the Egyptian state. “The group’s activity was frozen for an unspecified term,” Ultras Ahlawy stated on Facebook. Sources said that the statement aims to turn a new page in the relationship with the government. The group did not commemorate 74 victims of the 2012 Ahly-Masry football game clashes in the Ahly club headquarters after the Egyptian Minister of Interior asked them not to. The group urged President Abdel al-Fattah al-Sisi to issue a presidential pardon for releasing the club’s fans who were randomly arrested during the club’s games.

Source: Egypt Independent April 23, 2018 14:37 UTC