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