Military court ignores appeals to spare men, with two said to be in custody at time of crime, in trial condemned by Amnesty International
Egyptian authorities hanged six men on Sunday who were convicted of killing soldiers, police said, ignoring appeals to spare them amid allegations that two 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 carrying out the attacks in the months after the army’s overthrow of president Mohamed Morsi in July 2013.
Source The Guardian
