Hisham el-Ashmawi, a former Egyptian special forces officer turned Islamic militant, was executed on Wednesday.
He was sentenced to death by a military court in November in two separate cases for his participation in scores of militant attacks on government targets.
He was convicted for his role in planning scores of deadly attacks against the country’s security forces.
A civilian court also Monday sentenced him to death along with 36 other militants on terror-related charges.
Col. Tamer el-Rifai, a military spokesman, said on his Facebook page that el-Ashmawi was executed Wednesday by hanging. He posted a photo of the militant in a long beard and wearing a bright orange jumpsuit that is usually worn by those sentenced to death.
He said el-Ashmawi was convicted in 14 crimes including a 2014 ambush that killed 22 Egyptian military border guards near the border with Libya, and the 2013 assassination attempt against the interior minister at the time, Mohammed Ibrahim.
El-Ashmawi was captured in October 2018 in the Libyan city of Derna, a longtime bastion of Islamic militants, by the forces of Libyan commander Khalifa Hifter, an Egyptian ally. He was handed over to Egypt in March.
