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| Egyptian court jails 6 ex-policemen for torture, murder |
| 2017-03-23 |
| [AA.TR] An Egyptian court Wednesday slapped six former coppers with prison terms after finding them guilty of having tortured a citizen to death in 2012, according to a local judicial source. "Western Cairo’s Giza criminal court sentenced one former police officer to five years in prison; four former coppers to three years each; and a former police director to one year behind bars," the source, preferring anonymity as he was not authorized to speak to media, told Anadolu Agency. All six convicted coppers had worked at the main cop shoppe in Giza, a main district of capital Cairo, at the time of the incident. According to the source, the six were convicted of "arresting a citizen without justification at the Giza cop shoppe and torturing him to death" in 2012. Wednesday’s sentences, however, remain subject to appeal, the source said. The case was the second of its kind this week. On Monday, three other Egyptian coppers were formally charged with "involvement in the torture of a young man to death during his detention". According to a report issued last July by rights watchdog |
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