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Egypt officers get life sentences in torture case
Source: Reuters
Egypt officers get life sentences in torture case
By Abdel Rahman Youssef
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt | Thu Jun 21, 2012 8:15am EDT
(Reuters) - Four former officers in a now dissolved Egyptian security agency were sentenced in absentia to life in prison on Thursday for torturing to death an Islamist during investigations into the bombing of a church on New Year's Day 2011.
A fifth officer, the only one to attend the trial, was jailed for 15 years for his role in the death of Mohamed Sayyid Bilal, whose body was returned to his family a day after his arrest showing signs of torture and burns.
Bilal, 32 at the time of his death, was a Salafi Muslim, a member of a strict Islamist movement which has spawned a number of political parties since the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak last year.
Many other Salafis were rounded up following the bombing in Alexandria which killed 23 people and has still not been explained. Habib el-Adli, the interior minister at the time, accused the Army of Islam, a Gaza-based militant group, of carrying out the attack, something it quickly denied.
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By Abdel Rahman Youssef
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt | Thu Jun 21, 2012 8:15am EDT
(Reuters) - Four former officers in a now dissolved Egyptian security agency were sentenced in absentia to life in prison on Thursday for torturing to death an Islamist during investigations into the bombing of a church on New Year's Day 2011.
A fifth officer, the only one to attend the trial, was jailed for 15 years for his role in the death of Mohamed Sayyid Bilal, whose body was returned to his family a day after his arrest showing signs of torture and burns.
Bilal, 32 at the time of his death, was a Salafi Muslim, a member of a strict Islamist movement which has spawned a number of political parties since the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak last year.
Many other Salafis were rounded up following the bombing in Alexandria which killed 23 people and has still not been explained. Habib el-Adli, the interior minister at the time, accused the Army of Islam, a Gaza-based militant group, of carrying out the attack, something it quickly denied.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/21/us-egypt-torture-sentence-idUSBRE85K0QM20120621
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