Egypt executes 3 for 2014 murder of judge’s son: Source

<p>CAIRO (AA) – The Egyptian authorities on Thursday executed three &quot;dissidents&quot; convicted earlier of killing a judge's son in 2014, according to Muslim Brotherhood and human rights sources.</p> <p>In a Facebook post, Ayman Abdul Ghani, a leading member of Egypt’s banned Muslim Brotherhood group, identified the three executed individuals as Ahmed Maher al-Hindawi, Abdul Hamid Metwalli and Al-Motazbillah Ghanem.</p> <p>Human rights activist Alaa Abdel-Monsef, meanwhile, also reported the triple execution in a similar Facebook post.</p> <p>The Egyptian authorities, however, have yet to confirm the reports, while lawyers for the condemned trio were not immediately available for comment.</p> <p>In late 2017, Egypt’s Court of Cassation, the country’s highest appellate court, upheld death sentences handed down earlier against the three men.</p> <p>The defendants were first convicted in 2014 for killing the son of Mahmoud al-Sayyid al-Murli, a judge from Egypt’s Mansoura province.</p> <p>Two years later, a Mansoura criminal court sentenced the three to death, along with two others who were sentenced in absentia.</p> <p>All the defendants were ultimately convicted on charges of murder and “membership in an outlawed group”, in reference to the banned Muslim Brotherhood.</p>