Egypt hangs 6 for killing soldiers
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Egyptian authorities yesterday hanged six men convicted of killing soldiers, police said, ignoring appeals to spare them amid allegations two of them had been in custody at the time of their alleged crimes.
A military court upheld the death sentences last March, following a trial in which the six were convicted of the attacks in the months after the army’s overthrow of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in July 2013.
Prosecutors said they were members of the Sinai Peninsular-based Ansar Beit al-Maqdis jihadist group, which last year pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.
The sentence was carried out by hanging in a Cairo jail, according to officials.
Some of the men were held when police and soldiers raided a safe house north of Cairo in March 2014.
Two army explosive experts and six militants were killed in an ensuing gunfight, adding to the list of charges against the six men.
But human rights groups had appealed for a stay of execution, saying two of the defendants had been in custody at the time.
Amnesty International said the men underwent a “grossly unfair” trial and that the only witness was a secret police officer.
Their execution came a day after a court sentenced Morsi and more than 100 others to death for their alleged role in prison breaks and attacks on police during the 2011 uprising against former strongman Hosni Mubarak.
Hundreds of Islamists have been sentenced to death since Morsi’s overthrow, but only seven, including the six yesterday, have been executed.
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