Egypt Bans Ultras in Bid to Break Anti-Government Protests
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Ultras have for the past eight years been at the core of anti-government protest in Egypt. They have been the drivers of student protests in the last two years against the regime of Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, the general-turned-president who in 2013 toppled Mohammed Morsi, Egypt's first and only democratically elected president.
By James Dorsey, ContributorSenior fellow, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 2015-05-16