Reuters AlertNet Lite - Egypt jails man who accuses police of torture

Reuters AlertNet Full site

NEWSDESK

Egypt jails man who accuses police of torture

09 Jan 2007 21:00:17 GMT
Source: Reuters

CAIRO, Jan 9 (Reuters) - An Egyptian court sentenced a man who has accused police of sexually assaulting him to three months in jail on charges related to the same incident.

Cairo minibus driver Imad al-Kabir became an international cause celebre after a video circulated on Egyptian blogs in November showed him lying on the floor, naked from the waist down, as unidentified men sodomised him with a stick.

Kabir's lawyer has said his client was tortured by police officers in January 2006 in a station in the west Cairo suburb of Bulaq al-Dakrur after he tried to intervene in a dispute between the police and his brother.

He was convicted and sent to prison for three months with hard labour for resisting and obstructing the authorities and assaulting a policeman.

The two policemen accused of torturing Kabir, Captain Islam Nabih and Corporal Reda Fathi, appeared in the same court on Tuesday in the early stages of their separate trial. The court refused to release them on bail.

AlertNet news is provided by

Email this article Send comments

Countries

Small country map
© 2004 Europa Technologies Ltd.

Reset map

• Egypt profile
· View map

MORE >>

NGO latest

• Alliance urges action to close the HIV services gap at International Development Committee session on global HIV epidemic
International HIV/AIDS Alliance - UK

MORE >>

Latest news

• Egypt jails man who accuses police of torture

• Rice to tackle Mideast peace, Iraq on trip

• Rice to visit Middle East this week

• NY subway bomb plotter gets 30 years in prison

• UNHCR launches new US$60 million appeal for Iraq operations

MORE >>

Last updated:Tue Jan 9 21:02:36 2007