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The interior ministry said in a statement on its Facebook
page that Mahmoud Hassan Ramadan had been hanged for an incident
where children were thrown from a building during protests in
2013 against the ouster of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi.
Security sources have described Ramadan as a radical Islamist
who is not officially a Brotherhood member.
Former army chief Sisi oversaw the army's removal of the
Brotherhood's Mursi, elected president following the 2011
uprising, in July 2013 following mass protests against his rule.
He has since implemented a harsh crackdown on Islamists as well
as secular political opponents.
Egyptian courts have sentenced hundreds of alleged Brotherhood
supporters to death in recent months, many in mass trials
condemned by foreign governments and rights groups as violating
international law.
Saturday's execution came a month after Egypt's high court
upheld the death sentence against Ramadan. Most of the other
death sentences are still under review in a complex system of
legal appeals.
In one of the most dramatic scenes of the upheaval following
Mursi's fall captured on video, Ramadan threw someone off a
rooftop during clashes in the northern Mediterranean city's Sidi
Gaber district. An al Qaeda flag was seen tucked into the back
of Ramadan's trousers.
Fifty-seven others were sentenced to 15-25 years in the case.
The Brotherhood, which says it is committed to peaceful
activism, has accused the military of staging a coup and curbing
freedoms won in the 2011 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak.
(Reporting by Omar Fahmy and Stephen Kalin; Editing by Catherine
Evans)
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