Two policemen jailed for torturing suspect to death

An Egyptian Court has on Saturday sentenced two
policemen to 25 years in prison for torturing and
beating a citizen to death at a police station in
Tanta city of Gharbiya province northwest of the
capital, Cairo.
Tanta Criminal Court sentenced the convicted
captain and non-commissioned officer in absentia.
The court said it had previously sentenced the two
policemen to one year in jail for torturing and
injuring another citizen at the same police station.
A security source said the case dated back to the
arrest of two criminals with theft records and during
their interrogation, they were subjected to torture
that left one of them dead and the other wounded.
The source added that the verdict against the two
policemen would be appealed.
Egypt had recently witnessed a number of police
torture cases, some of which resulted in deaths.
That has led to the uproar of human rights groups
who accused the police of brutality.
President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, and the Interior
Ministry, in their responses, referred to them only as
“individual cases” and not a general police behavior,
stressing that the perpetrators would be punished.