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| Six Egyptian policemen charged with torturing prisoner to death |
| 2018-08-20 |
| [ARABNEWS] Six Egyptian coppers were charged Sunday with torturing a prisoner to death, state media reported, a rare case against law enforcement over alleged abuses in jug. Prosecutors alleged the officers tortured a young man accused of robbery to death in June at a cop shoppe in Cairo after conducting an autopsy on the body, state-run newspaper al-Ahram said. Rights groups have regularly denounced the security forces under President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi over the alleged widespread use of torture. The authorities insist that there are no state-sanctioned abuses carried out by law enforcement, and that any cases are down to individual officers. In May, an appeal court acquitted two coppers who had been tossed in the calaboose Please don't kill me! for allegedly beating to death a detained lawyer in 2015. |
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