Police officer handed 7-year sentence for beating citizen to death

Nourhan Elsebahy
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By Adham Youssef

The Giza Criminal Court sentenced Monday police officer Ibrahim Mahgoub to seven years in prison, and five lower ranking officers to five years, on charges of beating a man to death and fabricating a drug possession charge in 2011.

Prosecutors said the accused officers raided the home of a citizen, Mohamed Ramadan, in Al-Saff town to search for drugs. When Ramadan objected and asked the officers to show him a search warrant, they beat him to death.

They added that Mahgoub fabricated the drug possession charge for Ramadan as a pretext for the search, whereas investigations confirmed that Ramadan was innocent.

Incidents of police violence and attacking citizens have been increasing in recent months. Nonetheless, the Interior Ministry has repeatedly denied these incidents, saying that they are “individual cases” and not systematic.

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Nourhan El-Sebahy is a journalist at DNE’s politics section. Just before joining DNE’s staff, she was working as a journalist at El-Watan newspaper “an Egyptian daily independent newspaper”. She holds a Master’s Degree of Journalism and Mass Communication from the American University in Cairo (AUC). She was awarded by Certificate of honor on the Fourth Scientific Day Celebration in 2013 and Graduate Student’s honor at AUC in 2012.
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