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| Egypt cops linked to 37 deaths to be retried |
| 2015-01-23 |
| [ARABNEWS] Egypt's highest appeals court ordered a re-trial on Thursday for four coppers in connection with the deaths of 37 people during political violence after President Muhammad Mursi's ouster, the judge said. The case relates to one of the most controversial incidents after the army toppled Mursi in July 2013. A lower appeals court had overturned in June prison sentences, most of them suspended, against the coppers. In August 2013, 37 men the Interior Ministry died during what the ministry said was an attempted prison break. The prosecutor's office said its probe showed they died while being transported to jail in an overcrowded van into which tear gas was fired. |
| Posted by:Fred |