Long-detained Islamist
militant Adel Habara executed
Habara
was convicted for killing 25 police conscripts, among other terrorism-related
cases
Imprisoned
Islamist militant Adel Habara was executed Thursday morning, following the
Cassation Court’s upholding of his death sentence, state media reported.
According
to Al-Ahram, his body was transferred to the Zeinhom mortuary. The execution
was approved by President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and the justice minister.
Habara
received several death penalties in different cases. According to Al-Ahram, he
was mainly punished because of the “Rafah massacre.” Habara was convicted in
the “second Rafah massacre” of August 2013, killing 25 police conscripts in an
ambush on a police convoy in the Abu Tawila region, along the Al-Arish-Rafah
Road in Sinai, for which he was sentenced
to death.
A
copy of the court’s reasoning behind the verdict published by Al-Ahram said
that authorised recordings of Habara’s phone calls revealed that he formed a
cell that later pledged allegiance to Islamic State (IS). The court said Habara
not only admitted in those recordings that he killed the police conscripts, but
also “rejoiced their murder,” Al-Ahram reported.
In
December 2015, Habara was sentenced to death by the Zagazig Criminal Court on charges
of forming a takfiri
group, communicating with IS militant group and targeting police officers and
army personnel.
On
Monday, the Cassation Court upheld
the death sentence for Habara on charges of killing a police officer in 2012 in
Sharqeya.
Habara,
also known as Adel Mohamed Ibrahim, was arrested in August 2013 while hiding in
North Sinai’s Al-Arish city. In June 2014, Habara reportedly attempted to
escape detention while in a transportation vehicle from court to prison.
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