Two Islamists executed in Egypt

The Egyptian authorities on Wednesday executed two members of the Islamic Group, one of the main armed Islamic groups in Egypt, after they were found guilty by the state's Supreme Security Court in December 1997 of killing one policeman and wounding another four in an armed attack against a police center in Upper Egypt (al-Saeed) in 1992.

Security sources said the death sentence was carried out on Wednesday early morning in Cairo in Muhammad Fawzi Abdul Azeem and Mahmoud Mustafa Suleiman, each (24). The two men were among a five-member group, arrested in 1994 and tried under charges of shooting fires against police-men in Salamoun village in Suhaj province.

However, since the "Islamic group" started its activities which aim at toppling the government and establishing an Islamic state in 1992, number of armed group members who sentenced to death exceeded 100 but only 62 were so far executed.