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Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko called them \u201cway too harsh,\u201d while President Bassirou Diomaye Faye is said to have already sent a letter to King Mohammed VI requesting a royal pardon. Senegal is hoping for clemency or at least a chance for the fans to serve their sentences back home.<\/p>\n<p>Until then fans are taking it to the streets this Saturday in Dakar, showing solidarity and defending fan culture. \u201cWe cheer, we cry, we celebrate, we shouldn\u2019t go to jail for loving football,\u201d one organiser said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>18 supporters locked up in Morocco, protest planned in Dakar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[318,320,63,319,312],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-afcondrama","tag-dakarprotest","tag-football","tag-freethefans","tag-senegal"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Senegal Fans Outraged Over AFCON Jail Sentences - 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