The Southern Giza Prosecution renewed on Wednesday the detention of three police officers to seven days, on accusations of torturing a man to death in Al-Haram police station, as well as forcefully detaining him. The director of Al-Haram police station was summoned for investigations by the prosecution. The victim, 26-year-old conscript Mahmoud Sayed, was arrested alongside his brother on charges of murdering and robbing their grandmother. On Tuesday, the Prosecutor General ordered a periodical campaign to look into the status of prisoners detained pending investigations. He assigned members of the prosecution to administer this process and make it a regular procedure to search police stations and prisons for such detainees.

Source: Daily News Egypt March 22, 2017 14:37 UTC