Egypt has carried out
its first death sentence which was handed down over the violence that
followed the overthrow of President Mohammed Morsi in 2013. BBC was there:
Mahmoud Ramadan, a supporter of the deposed leader and convicted of murder, was hanged.
The charge related to an incident when youths were thrown from a building in the city of Alexandria.
Hundreds of people have been sentenced to death in an Islamist crackdown following Mr Morsi’s removal.
The violence in Alexandria’s Sidi Gaber district broke out in the days after the army deposed Mr Morsi on 3 July 2013, following mass protests against his rule.
The state news agency Mena said that 18 people were killed in the clashes.
The Muslim Brotherhood has denied any involvement in the killings.
Footage of two youths being thrown from a roof in the Mediterranean city was widely broadcast in Egypt at the time.
One of them – Hamad Badr, who had just turned 19 – later died in hospital.
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