{"id":21825,"date":"2015-12-12T07:06:54","date_gmt":"2015-12-12T07:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/egypt-jails-police-for-beating-lawyer-to-death\/"},"modified":"2015-12-12T07:06:22","modified_gmt":"2015-12-12T07:06:22","slug":"egypt-jails-police-for-beating-lawyer-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/egypt-jails-police-for-beating-lawyer-to-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt jails police for beating lawyer to death"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Cairo – An Egyptian court sentenced two officers with the secret police to five years in prison on Saturday for beating to death an imprisoned lawyer, the second such verdict in a week.
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The two officers, a lieutenant colonel and captain with the national security force, had been accused of torturing Karim Hamdi to death in a Cairo police station in February.<\/p>\n

He had been held on suspicion of belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood movement, which the military had ousted from power in 2013.<\/p>\n

Both officers had been released on bail during the course of the trial and it was not clear when they would be detained. They can appeal the ruling.<\/p>\n

The verdict came two days after another court sentenced an officer to five years in prison for beating a prisoner to death in a police station.<\/p>\n

There has been an increase in reports of beatings and deaths in detention in recent months, prompting President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi and the interior ministry to pledge they would hold to account those responsible.<\/p>\n

Long running police abuses, including the brutal killing of a young man in 2010 at the hands of two policemen, had fuelled an 18-day uprising that overthrew president Hosni Mubarak in 2011.<\/p>\n

Mubarak was succeeded in 2012 by the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi, who lasted a year in power before his ouster by the military following massive rallies demanding the Islamist’s resignation.<\/p>\n

Morsi’s overthrow unleashed a deadly crackdown on his supporters and thousands have been detained, and accusations of ill treatment in prisons are common.<\/p>\n

The interior ministry has said it does not condone torture but says there have been “individual” cases of abuses.<\/p>\n

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SOURCE:NEWS 24:[Egypt jails police for beating lawyer to death->http:\/\/www.news24.com\/Africa\/News\/egypt-jails-police-for-beating-lawyer-to-death-20151212]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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