Egypt executes 82-yr-old Quran scholar, 16 others
The seventeen were executed on the charges in the case known in the media as the “Kerdasa massacre”.
By Sakina Fatima| Updated: 29th April 2021 10:52 pm IST 17 people have been hanged to death including an 82-year-old elderly man in the case known breaking into Kerdasa police station
Cairo: Egyptian authorities on Monday executed seventeen prisoners including Sheikh Abd al Rahim Jibril, an 82-year-old scholar of Quran, who were convicted of murder for an attack on a police station in 2013, reported the country’s interior ministry.
The seventeen were executed on the charges in the case known in the media as the “Kerdasa massacre”.
Egypt s Prison Authority yesterday released 2,674 prisoners from jail after a presidential pardon was issued on the occasion of Sinai Liberation Day, Egypt Today reported. According to local me.