Egypt’s Court of Cassation on Tuesday rejected the appeal of four police officers against a court ruling sentencing them to three years in prison for torturing a detainee to death in Sayeda Zeinab police station. The court upheld an earlier verdict against the defendants issued by Cairo Criminal Court in May 2016. The family filed a case with the prosecution accusing the four police officers of killing the victim. The family’s claims were supported by forensic medicine report which stated that the body shows marks for torture. In December of 2015, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said that “individual incidents” of detainee torture by police should not be generalized to mean that torture is an Interior Ministry policy.

Source: Egypt Independent May 23, 2017 14:48 UTC