Six men convicted of carrying out attacks on behalf of Ansar Bait Al-Maqdis, the deadliest terrorist organization operating on Egyptian soil, have been executed, reported state media Al-Ahram. The six men had been convicted of killing nine security forces members. Military prosecutors had accused a total of nine defendants in the ‘Arab Sharkas’ case for carrying out a shooting on a military bus in Cairo’s Amiriya district in March 2014, resulting in the death of one soldier. During the same month, another attack on a military checkpoint in the north of Cairo killed six soldiers. The Military’s prosecution also accused the nine defendants, two of whom were sentenced to life in prison and one was sentenced to death in absentia, of killing a colonel and brigadier during a shootout in the village of Arab Sharkas in Egypt’s northern province of Qaliubiya. The shootout occurred as security forces led a raid that killed six alleged militants and resulted in the arrest of eight others, according to Egypt’s Ministry of Interior. Despite the Military and Ministry of Interior’s account of the events, human rights organizations had urged Egypt to half the executions….
