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Rights groups raise alarm as Egypt executes 17

Cairo has executed 17 men convicted of committing a 2013 attack on a police station after human rights activists say they were tortured to confess.
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CAIRO — Egypt executed 17 prisoners April 26 and 28. They had been convicted of committing 2013 attack in the town of Kerdasa in Giza governorate, where gunmen stormed a police station and killed 11 policemen.

The executions prompted a number of local and international human rights organizations to issue condemnation and calls for an end to the death penalty in Egypt.

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