A Muslim Brotherhood supporter was executed today in Egypt for a murder committed during riots in mid-2013, the first death sentence carried out against a supporter of the banned group under President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
Mahmoud Hassan Ramadan was executed after being convicted of throwing three teenagers off the roof of an apartment building in Alexandria in 2013 during riots against the ousting of former president Mohamed Morsi, according to a statement by the Interior Ministry.
The execution is the first death sentence to be implemented against the supporters of Muslim Brotherhood after the ouster of Morsi.
The Alexandria Criminal Court sentenced Ramadan last year for throwing three teenagers off the roof. One of the teenagers was killed while two others suffered serious injuries.
Ramadan was a supporter and not a member of the Brotherhood.
The papers for the approval of the capital punishment was then sent to the Grand Mufti, who according to Egyptian law, should review the death sentences.
Ramadan appeared in a video, that went viral on social media, holding the black al-Qaeda flag and attacking the boys.
Since Islamist ex-president Mohamed Morsi's ouster in 2013, the Egyptian government has been cracking down on the Muslim Brotherhood and its supporters.
Egyptian courts have sentenced hundreds of alleged Brotherhood supporters to death in recent months.
Egypt's high court last month upheld the death sentence against Ramadan. Most of the other death sentences are still under review.
Morsi himself is currently in prison over charges of killing peaceful protesters, espionage, escaping from prison during the January 25 revolution in 2011 that toppled strongman Hosni Mubarak.
He was recently charged for spying and handing documents of national security importance to Qatari intelligence through the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera news channel.
He has not been sentenced in any case so far.
