Rights group urges Egypt to halt executions of 6 men
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CAIRO - A rights group urged Egypt on Saturday to halt the execution of six men condemned to death by a military tribunal for killing security forces, citing lawyers and family who contend some of them were in jail at the time of the attack.
New York-based Human Rights Watch said that the men are accused of being members of the insurgent group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis.
The rights group said the men were part of a group of nine convicted of killing two officers in a 2014 shootout north of Cairo, and it added they should be given a retrial before a civilian court.
