Egypt Executes 15 Political Prisoners in New Crackdown - Tasnim News Agency

Egyptian authorities have executed 15 detainees since Saturday, all of them "political" prisoners, a rights group and families said.

According to We Record, an organization tracking and documenting the death penalty in Egypt, authorities executed on Saturday 15 detainees who had been in custody since 2014, in three cases the organization described as “political”, the Middle East Eye reported.

A spokesperson for the group said that the executions were "unlawful" since most of the detainees had been subjected to enforced disappearance and torture prior to their conviction.

Two detainees, Yasser Abasiri and Yasser Shakr, were members of the Muslim Brotherhood, from the coastal city of Alexandria.