Egypt: Officer Is Sentenced to 15 Years for Torturing Suspect to Death

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/17/world/middleeast/egypt-officer-is-sentenced-to-15-years-for-torturing-suspect-to-death.html

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A police officer was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Tuesday for torturing an ultraconservative Muslim to death, a rare lengthy term for a policeman convicted of abuse. The Criminal Court in Alexandria found Osama el-Kounayassi guilty of using torture to extract confessions from el-Sayed Belal, a Salafist Muslim who had been accused of involvement in a bombing at a Coptic Christian church more than two years ago. He was the second officer in the case to receive a 15-year sentence. Mr. Belal’s case was one of two cases of brutality that galvanized public anger shortly before the popular revolt that ousted President Hosni Mubarak.