Police Officer Gets Prison for Brutality
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A senior police officer was sentenced to one year of hard labor for beating a detainee to death, a court official said.
Arafa Hamza, chief detective of Al-Amrania police station in Giza, was convicted of police brutality leading to death in his interrogation of Ahmed Mahmoud, a court official said. Al-Amrania is a low-income district in Giza.
Last month, the U.N. Committee Against Torture said there was “widespread evidence of torture and ill-treatment of detainees” in Egypt.
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