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Egyptian Police Sentenced In Landmark Torture Case
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"This ruling will not be as influential as hoped for," Taher Abul Nasr, an activist in the group Egyptians against Torture and a lawyer for several other torture victims, said Monday night.
"The case is a special case -- the first, and almost the only, case documented by video and audio," Nasr said. "This evidence isn't available in all the cases."
Other cases include a 13-year-old boy detained by police in August for stealing tea bags. Police allegedly returned the boy to his family burned, gouged and on the verge of a coma. He died a few days later. The same month, police allegedly threw a man from his roof after he had accused officers of beating him. Police deny responsibility in both deaths.
In Telbana, a village in the Nile Delta, the family of another man allegedly beaten in police custody said late this summer that they had refused a payment offered by authorities to drop the case.
"We are following rule of law because they say there is rule of law. We are asking for our legitimate right, if there is legitimacy, and if there are rights, in this country," said Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, the brother of Nasr Ahmed Abdullah, who died of an apparent brain hemorrhage after his alleged beating.
Special correspondent Nora Younis contributed to this report.
