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| Guilty verdicts of 4 policemen overturned in Abu Zabaal prison van case |
| 2014-06-08 |
| [Al Ahram] An Egyptian appeal court overturned a ten year prison sentence handed down to one policeman and the one year suspended sentence given to three others on Saturday, on charges of killing 37 people inside a police van in an Guilincident last summer. On 18 August last year, the interior ministry said that 37 supporters of ousted president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Timeprinciple, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... tossed in the slammer Book 'im, Mahmoud! in protests had died of asphyxiation due to teargas and overcrowding while they were being transferred to Abu Zabaal prison in Cairo in a police van. Saturday's decision means that investigations into the charges will continue, with a retrial possible. The appeal case was heard at the police academy in New Cairo under tight security. Journalists were barred from attending the court session. Policemen Amr Farouq, Ibrahim El-Morsi, Islam Abdel-Fattah and Mohammed Abdel-Aziz were all originally convicted of killing due to negligence. |
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