Wael al-Saad Tawadros: Coptic monk hanged over bishop s murder in Egypt
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image captionBishop Epiphanius was found bludgeoned to death in July 2018 at Saint Macarius monastery
A Coptic Christian monk who was convicted over the 2018 killing of the head of an ancient Egyptian desert monastery has been hanged.
Bishop Epiphanius was found bludgeoned to death in July 2018 at Saint Macarius monastery in the Western Desert.
Another monk convicted for his role in the crime was sentenced to life in prison.
The case shocked Egypt s Coptic community, the largest Christian minority in the Middle East.
The monks, Wael al-Saad Tawadros and Remon Rasmi Mansour, were said to have killed the abbot of the monastery in the plains of Wadi al-Natrun, north-west of Cairo, because of unspecified differences .