Three security sources told Reuters that "the Egyptian authorities have carried out the death sentence against Hisham Ashmawi, who is convicted of carrying out dozens of armed attacks against the army and police."
These sources confirmed that the Ministry of Interior carried out the death sentence against Ashmawy - who was a former officer in the Special Forces until 2006 - inside the Cairo Appeal Prison, according to the established procedures.
In turn, Khaled Al-Masry, Ashmawy’s lawyer, said that he “did not receive any notification from the Prison Authority regarding the implementation of the death sentence against his client,” noting that Ashmawi’s family had no information about the Prison Authority’s implementation of the death sentence, and his family was not notified accordingly.
The Egyptian judiciary had issued two final rulings on the death of Ashmawi for his conviction in the two cases known to the media as "Farafra, the third Ansar of Jerusalem".
The first case relates to the accusation of Ashmawy and others of the “Al-Murabitoun” organization, of attacking a security checkpoint in Farafra, in the west of the country in July 2014, which resulted in the killing of two officers and 26 recruits. The first year of the State Security Prosecution.
On May 29, 2019, Cairo announced that Ashmawi had received the forces of retired Libyan Major General Khalifa Hifter, according to Egyptian TV and the official Egyptian news agency.
Haftar's forces arrested Ashmawy in Derna, in eastern Libya, in October 2018.