The Matariya Misdemeanours Court sentenced Monday two police conscripts to six months in prison, charged with assaulting two doctors at the Matariya Teaching hospital in January 2016, state media reported. The recent sentence is a reduction of a previous three-year prison sentence, issued against nine police conscripts initially indicted in the case last September. In a December session, the court had ordered the detention of the two conscripts until the final verdict was to be issued. The case began when two doctors at the Matariya Teaching hospital were assaulted and detained following a misunderstanding with an injured police conscript. The dispute escalated when the conscript and his colleague called in other colleagues from the Matariya police station, who assaulted, injured, and unlawfully detained the doctors, according to prosecution investigations.

Source: Daily News Egypt January 17, 2017 11:33 UTC