11 February 2021 :
On February 24, 2020 it took place the execution of eight inmates in Alexandria Prison: Abdul Rahman Kamal Al-Din Ali; Remake Ali Ahmed Mohammed; Rami Mohamed Abdel-Hamid; Walid Abu Al-Majd Abdullah; Muhammad Mubarak Abdel Salam; Salama Ahmed Salama; Ali Shehat Hussein; Ali Mahmoud Mohand Hassan.
The eight convicts were sentenced to death in October 2018 for involvement in the bombing of three Egypt’s Coptic churches in Cairo, Tanta and Alexandria. On December 11, 2016 a suicide bomber killed 29 people and injured 47 others at St. Peter and St. Paul's Church (commonly known as El-Botroseya Church), a chapel next to Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral, seat of the Coptic Orthodox Pope, in Cairo's Abbasia district. Other two explosions at St George's Coptic church in Tanta and St Mark's Coptic church in Alexandria killed 45 people and injured 125 others.
The list of charges against them included " the manufacture and possession of explosive devices, firearms and ammunition, the adhesion to ISIS and the receiving military training in camps belonging to the terrorist organization in Libya and Syria". The eight inmates were also convicted for the ambush in New Valley Governorate in southwestern Egypt, that had caused 8 deaths and attempted murder of 14 policemen.
