CAIRO — Egyptian prosecutors have charged 38 members of a die-hard soccer fan club with belonging to an illegal group and other offenses, one of the first signs of a crackdown on the powerful sports organizations that have been at the forefront of the country's protest movement, lawyers said Thursday. President Mohammed Morsi meanwhile reached out to the city of Port Said, plunged into unrest by recent court verdicts related to a 2012 soccer riot. He promised to "preserve the rights of the people" and discover the "real criminal" behind violence in the Mediterranean port. Soccer fans, known as Ultras, became a major political force during the uprising th...
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