CAIRO — Six men were hanged in Egypt on Sunday, the state-run newspaper Al-Ahram reported, after being convicted by a military court for attacks on security forces.
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International had demanded that the men be spared, citing evidence that three of them were already in custody months before the attacks took place.
Prosecutors said the six were responsible for killing seven soldiers in two attacks in March 2014, and killing two more when troops raided their hideout on March 19 the same year, independent news site Mada Masr reported at the time.
The convicts were alleged to be members of Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, a jihadi organization responsible for many deadly attacks on Egyptian security forces since Islamist president Mohammed Morsi was toppled by the army in 2013.