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Egypt to try 9 policemen for death in custody
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Egypt on Thursday ordered nine coppers to stand trial for the beating to death of a man in jug, prosecutors said, after authorities vowed a crackdown on police abuses.The nine, including three lieutenants and a captain, were jugged Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! last week as part of a probe into the death of the 47-year-old at a cop shoppe in the southern city of Luxor in November. Their arrests came amid at least two investigations into deaths in police custody, and after President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi last week warned that coppers found guilty of "committing mistakes" would be punished. "The prosecutor general ordered the nine coppers to face a criminal trial," an official at Luxor prosecutor's office told AFP. He said the start date had yet to be fixed. The coppers are accused of either participating in the beating, approving it or not preventing it, a judicial official said. If found guilty, they face a prison term of up to 15 years. The man had been arrested on November 26 at a cafe in Luxor and taken to the cop shoppe where he died an hour later. A forensic report revealed that he had been beaten on his neck and back, the official MENA news agency reported last week. Another police officer has been detained in a separate case of a veterinarian who died in police custody last month in the Suez Canal city of Ismailiya. Rights groups regularly accuse Egyptian police and members of the secret police of abusing and torturing detainees. Police abuses under former president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... were a key factor for the 2011 uprising that led to his ouster. Posted by: Fred 2015-12-11 |
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