{"id":13208,"date":"2014-03-18T07:47:53","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T07:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/egypt-police-convicted-over-detainee-death\/"},"modified":"2014-03-18T07:48:07","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T07:48:07","slug":"egypt-police-convicted-over-detainee-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/egypt-police-convicted-over-detainee-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt Police Convicted Over Detainee Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"
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{{A court in Cairo has convicted four Egyptian policemen over the deaths of 37 Islamist detainees last August.}}<\/p>\n

Deputy chief of Heliopolis police station Lt Col Amr Farouk was sentenced to 10 years in prison for involuntary manslaughter and extreme negligence.<\/p>\n

The other three officers were given one-year suspended sentences.<\/p>\n

The detainees died as a result of asphyxiation when tear gas was fired into the back of a vehicle transporting 45 of them to a prison outside Cairo.<\/p>\n

Security officials initially said the detainees had rioted and captured a guard while en route to Abu Zabal prison on 18 August, causing the officers to respond by firing tear gas into the vehicle.<\/p>\n

However, prosecutors found no evidence to support the claim and that the vehicle transporting them was designed to carry only 24 detainees.<\/p>\n

Crowd-control experts said at the time that the detainees would have died in agony, gasping for air and incapable of resisting the guards.<\/p>\n

The incident sparked international condemnation, with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon saying he was “deeply disturbed” by the deaths and calling for a “full investigation”.<\/p>\n

It took place four days after almost 1,000 people were killed when security forces cleared two sit-ins in Cairo by supporters of President Mohammed Morsi, who was ousted by the military in July.<\/p>\n

Thousands of Islamists have since been detained, among them Mr Morsi and other senior leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood movement, who are being tried on a variety of charges including inciting murder and conspiring with foreign organisations to spread violent chaos throughout Egypt.<\/p>\n

BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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