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http://www.africasia.com/services/news/newsitem.php?area=mideast&item=071105133816.dvyikwrq.php

Egypt jails police after sodomy torture video

An Egyptian court on Monday jailed two policemen for three years for sodomising a detainee with a stick in torture shown in widely distributed video footage that sparked nationwide outrage.

Cairo Criminal Court jailed Islam Nabih, 28, and Reda Fatih, 25, for torturing and sexually abusing minibus driver Imad al-Kabir in January 2006, in a rare case of security forces members being sentenced for abusing detainees.

The two officers faced up to 15 years in prison, but Judge Samir Abul Mati said that "because the accused are young and inexperienced" he had been lenient.

In August, a 13-year-old boy died in hospital four days after police brought him there because he lost consciousness while in their custody on a theft charge.

In that case, the interior ministry said burns on the boy's body were accidental and that he had died from a pulmonary infection.

Last month an Egyptian court acquitted a state security officer of charges of torturing to death a man he had arrested in 2003. The autopsy said he died because of torture by electric shock combined with a weak heart.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. boy, will they have fun an an egyptian prison.

a good family friend has adopted an egyptian student, who happens to be gay. The US continues to deny him sanctuary claiming his sexual preferences are not good enough grounds. He has to return to Egypt, declare his sexuality, then reapply. Yet, if he returns (as some state asshole instructed him) and declares his sexuality in Cairo, he would be arrested as a criminal, and therefore NOT permitted to immigrate into the US because of his criminal sentence. (it happens too often like that) He is staying here on a student visa, which is fine so long as he can afford to stay in school.

[uppityperson]

2. He has to prove it's dangerous by getting arrested and not being allowed to return

to prove it is dangerous? I hate this shit.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. yup. I've spent some time with him looking at options.

so long as the grad program continues, things are cool. but school does not last forever

[JHB]

3. Ask Rudy Guliani about that...

He seems to think sodomizing detainees with a stick is proper police procedure.

(Google "Abner Louima" it you need more information)