Cairo, April 29 -- Egyptian authorities on Monday executed seventeen prisoners including Sheikh Abd al Rahim Jibril, an 82-year-old scholar of Quran, who were convicted of murder for an attack on a police station in 2013, reported the country's interior ministry.

The seventeen were executed on the charges in the case known in the media as the "Kerdasa massacre".

In 2013, all 17 people were convicted of killing 13 policemen during an attack on a police station in Giza, on the outskirts of Kerdasa.

However, serious questions were raised about their sentence. According to Middle-East Eye, the Arab Organization for Human Rights UK (AOHR) has confirmed that the identities of those who raided the police station under investigation are still ...