Egypt carries out hanging sentence of 1st Morsi backer
Egypt has reportedly carried out the first of over 180 death sentences handed down by its courts over massive protest rallies and clashes that followed the ouster of former president Mohamed Morsi.
Egyptian Interior Ministry spokesman Hani Abdel Latif announced on Saturday that a man identified as Mahmoud Ramadan was hanged at 7 a.m. local time (0500 GMT), referring to him as the “first to be executed of those involved in violent clashes” that erupted after Morsi’s overthrow in 2013.
The development came after an Egyptian court upheld last month the death sentences of 183 Muslim Brotherhood supporters over an alleged 2013 attack on a police station near the capital Cairo.
The violence came after security forces killed hundreds of protesters when they cleared protest camps set up in the capital by supporters of Morsi.
This is while hundreds of Morsi backers have received death sentences following speedy trials described by the United Nations as “unprecedented in recent history.”
UK-based rights group Amnesty International has also stated that the death sentences followed grossly unfair trials and highlighted Cairo’s disregard for national and international law.
Morsi was elected president after the fall of long-time dictator, Hosni Mubarak, but was later ousted in a coup led by former military chief and current President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in July 2013.
The Egyptian government has been cracking down on any opposition since Morsi was ousted, arresting thousands of people including Brotherhood leaders and activists.
Cairo named the Brotherhood as a terrorist organization in December 2013.
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