Egypt hanged nine men on Wednesday (February 20th) for the 2015 assassination of the prosecutor general, AFP reported.
Hisham Barakat was killed in June 2015 when a car bomb struck his convoy in Cairo following extremist calls for attacks on the judiciary.
The nine men hanged on Wednesday were among 28 people sentenced to death in 2017 for involvement in his murder.
Their death sentences were upheld in November by the Court of Cassation, which commuted the sentences of six others to life imprisonment.
The sentences of the other defendants were not considered because they had been sentenced in absentia.
O, God, have mercy on them and place them with the martyrs and sincere people! O, God, avenge the unjust! Amen!
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