Protesters hold a banner reading ‘Sisi kills the youth’ in front of the Egyptian consulate in Istanbul during a demonstration against executions in Egypt in March 2019 (AFP)
MEE has approached the familes of Abasiri and Shakr for comment, but had not received a response by the time of publication.
Egypt’s late President Mohamed Morsi, a senior Brotherhood member, was ousted from power by his defence minister Sisi in July 2013. Sisi has been president since 2014.
According to Ahmed el-Attar, a London-based human rights researcher, most of those who were executed on Saturday had been detained in the maximum-security Scorpion Prison, where hundreds of political prisoners are held.
