Egypt executes 7 convicted of killing police officer cruxnow.com

Egypt executed seven people convicted of killing a police officer in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia, after a trial that was “marred by serious allegations of torture,” an international rights groups said Wednesday.

The defendants were accused of killing the officer and the attempted killing of another person during a fight in November 2013. A criminal court sentenced them to death, and the country’s highest criminal appeals court upheld the verdict in 2018, Amnesty International said.

The police officer was shot to death while trying to break up a fight in Ismailia, according to court documents. The accused also allegedly tried to kill a civilian and seized the officer’s weapon before fleeing…