Egyptian Court Jails Police Officers over Lawyer’s Death

An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced two officers with the secret police to five years in prison for beating to death an imprisoned lawyer. The two officers, a lieutenant colonel and captain with the National Security Force (NSF) had been accused of torturing Karim Hamdi to death in a Cairo police station in February. He had been held on suspicion of belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood movement, which the military had ousted from power in 2013. Both defendants had been released on bail during the course of the trial and it was not clear when they would be detained. They can appeal the ruling.