Two Egyptian Homeland Security police officers were sentenced to five years in prison on Saturday for “torturing to death” a lawyer in custody last February. Lawyer Karim Hamdy was arrested in February and was accused of arms possession and protesting against the military and the police. He was taken to the Matariya police station in Cairo, but he did not make it out alive. The two policemen were arrested within the month of February. After a month, they were released on bail but in April, the state’s highest prosecutor referred them to criminal court An investigation revealed that the lawyer was “subjected to torture” at the hands of two police officers to coerce him to confess to committing crimes, leaving him with “multiple serious injuries”, which led to his death. Today’s verdict comes as a slew of cases of alleged police torture that have caught the public’s attention. Last week, four police officers and five low ranking policemen were referred to criminal court for their involvement in the case of torturing and killing a citizen inside a Luxor police station. The case dates back to Nov. 24 when Talaat Shabib, 47, was arrested at a…
Two Egyptian Policemen Sentenced to Five Years in Prison for Torturing Lawyer to Death
December 12, 2015
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