Football club’s organiser and security chief jailed after 135 die in stampede

Arema FC organising committee chairman Abdul Haris, left, and the club’s security chief Suko Sutrisno, centre, walk to the courtroom to attend their sentencing hearing (Trisnadi/AP)

A football club organiser and its chief of security have been jailed by an Indonesian court after 135 people died when police fired tear gas inside a stadium – setting off a panicked run for the exits.

The disaster in the Kanjuruhan stadium in East Java’s Malang city is among the world’s worst sporting tragedies.