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Africa North
Egypt executes seven over Islamist attacks that killed policemen
2022-03-12
[IsraelTimes] Egypt has executed seven people convicted of Islamist attacks in the past week, human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty...
activists said on Friday.

Three of those executed had been found guilty of a 2016 attack claimed by the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group that left eight coppers dead in Helwan, on Cairo’s southern outskirts, judicial and security sources told AFP.

Another four had been sentenced to death for attacks on police coordinated by the "Soldiers of Egypt," a jihadist group that carried out attacks between 2014 and 2015, rights groups said.
Ajnad Misr emerged in early 2014 after breaking off from Ansar Bayt al Maqdis, which was then still linked to Al Qaeda. Possibly they allied with the Muslim Brotherhood after the Egyptian army evicted the MB from the government, but at any rate they ranked #12 on the UAE terror blacklist. They mostly blew up Cairo policemen with IEDs they made themselves...
Amnesia Amnesty International says Egypt has handed down hundreds of death sentence
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
s, and that it carried out 107 in 2020 — the third highest in the world.

Friday’s report was "the first round of executions in the last six months," a representative of Human Rights Watch said.
Related:
Helwan: 2022-01-19 Court of Cassation upholds prison terms for 34 convicted over 2013 violence charges
Helwan: 2021-10-01 Egyptian authorities say they blocked Brotherhood financing scheme
Helwan: 2020-09-29 Egypt's security forces kill two terrorists in Qalioubiya
Related:
Soldiers of Egypt: 2019-05-08 Egypt court upholds death sentences for 13 members of Ajnad Misr
Soldiers of Egypt: 2017-12-08 Egyptian grand mufti affirms death sentences for 13 Ajnad Misr terrorists
Soldiers of Egypt: 2015-08-11 Blast outside Cairo courthouse injures two policemen, civilian
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