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| Egypt Carries out first Hanging over Pro-Morsi Violence |
| 2015-03-08 |
| [AnNahar] Egypt on Saturday carried out the first death sentence handed down over the violence that erupted after the army's 2013 overthrow of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi, the interior ministry said. Hundreds of Morsi supporters have been sentenced to death after speedy mass trials, which the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... has described as "unprecedented in recent history". Mahmoud Ramadan, who was hanged at 7 am (0500 GMT), was the "first to be executed of those involved in violent festivities," ministry front man Hani Abdel Latif said. A court in Egypt's second city Alexandria sentenced Ramadan and another Morsi supporter to death in 2014 after convicting them of throwing youths off an apartment block, killing one of them. They were among dozens of people put on trial over deadly violence in the city's Sidi Gaber neighborhood on July 5, 2013, two days after Morsi's ouster by then army chief and now President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The violence came as supporters and opponents of the elected president held rival demonstrations across the city. A government crackdown on Morsi's supporters left hundreds dead and thousands detained and put on trial. Hundreds were killed in a single day on August 14, 2013, when police stormed two pro-Morsi protest camps in Cairo. The ousted president is himself facing multiple trials on charges that carry the death penalty. The leader of Morsi's Moslem Brüderbund movement, Mohammed Badie, has already been sentenced to death in one trial. Many of the prosecutions have been in mass trials, which then U.N. human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... chief Navi Pillay described last June as "obscene and a complete travesty of justice." The government crackdown has triggered retaliatory attacks by Islamist bully boyz targeting security forces in Cairo and other major cities, but mostly in the Sinai Peninsula where troops are battling a raging insurgency. Scores of coppers and soldiers have been killed in the attacks, most of them claimed by Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, the Egyptian affiliate of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group. Late on Friday a kaboom in the textile town of Mahallah, north of Cairo, killed one person and maimed 11. The interior minister who oversaw the crackdown on Morsi's supporters, Mohammed Ibrahim, was replaced on Thursday amid mounting criticism of the failure by police to halt the attacks. His successor Magdy Abdel Ghaffar appointed 25 new commanders on Friday in a major shake-up. |
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| #1 "Get a rope!" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-03-08 11:31 |