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Egypt carries out execution of Morsi supporters

07 March 2015 14:44 (UTC +04:00)

Baku – APA. Egypt has carried out the first death sentence stemming from the violence that erupted after the 2013 overthrow of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi, the Interior Ministry said, APA reports quoting Hurriyyet paper.

Mahmoud Ramadan was convicted of throwing people off a building in the northern city of Alexandria. Mahmoud Ramadan was hanged on Saturday at 7:00am.

Ministry spokesman Hani Abdel Latif said that Ramadan was the "first to be executed of those involved in violent clashes."

Hundreds of Morsi supporters have been sentenced to death after express trials, which the UN says is "unprecedented in recent history."

A court in Egypt's second largest city Alexandria had sentenced Ramadan and another Morsi supporter to death in 2014 after convicting them of throwing youths off an apartment block, killing one of them.