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Egypt executes 9 over murder of top prosecutor

by Associated Press

CAIRO Feb 20, 2019 - 4:22 pm GMT+3
 In this June 30, 2015 file photo, pall bearers carry the body of slain Egyptian Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat who was killed in bomb attack a day earlier, during his burial at a cemetery in Cairo. (AP Photo)
In this June 30, 2015 file photo, pall bearers carry the body of slain Egyptian Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat who was killed in bomb attack a day earlier, during his burial at a cemetery in Cairo. (AP Photo)
by Associated Press Feb 20, 2019 4:22 pm

Egypt on Wednesday executed nine suspected Muslim Brotherhood members convicted of involvement in the 2015 assassination of Egypt's top prosecutor, security officials said.

The nine were found guilty of taking part in the bombing that killed Hisham Barakat, the first assassination of a senior official in Egypt in a quarter century. Barakat was also the most senior official killed since the military overthrew an elected but divisive Islamist president in 2013.

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief media, said the families of the men were told to pick up their bodies from a Cairo morgue. A total of 15 people have been executed in Egypt since the start of the year.

Amnesty International on Tuesday called on Egypt to halt the executions, saying that some defendants said they were forcibly disappeared and confessed under torture.

"There is no doubt that those involved in deadly attacks must be prosecuted and held accountable for their actions, but executing prisoners or convicting people based on confessions extracted through torture is not justice," said Amnesty's Najia Bounaim.

Egypt's highest appeals court upheld the death sentences in November. It commuted six other death sentences to life in prison. Death sentences were also handed down in July 2017 to 13 defendants tried in absentia. They will be eligible for a new trial if they surrender or are captured.

Turkey deported one of the 13 last month. Mohammed Abdel-Hafiz is likely to face a new trial over the same accusations.

The Muslim Brotherhood was Egypt's best-organized opposition movement for decades and won a series of elections after a pro-democracy uprising in 2011 ended President Hosni Mubarak's nearly three-decade rule.

But President Mohammed Morsi, a senior Brotherhood figure elected in 2012, proved divisive, and the military removed him from power amid mass protests against his rule a year later. Since then, authorities have outlawed the Brotherhood and branded it a terror group as part of a wider crackdown on dissent.

Militants have also stepped up attacks since Morsi's 2013 overthrow, mainly targeting security forces and the country's Christian minority.

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