The nine, including three lieutenants and a captain, were arrested on Friday and Saturday as part of a probe into the death of the 47-year-old man at a police station last month.
Nine Egyptian
policemen have been arrested in an investigation into the death of a man in
police custody in Luxor, officials said on Sunday, after authorities vowed a
crackdown on police abuses.
The nine,
including three lieutenants and a captain, were arrested on Friday and Saturday
as part of a probe into the death of the 47-year-old man at a police station
last month.
Their arrests
came amid at least two investigations into deaths in police custody and after
President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi last week warned that police officers found
guilty of "committing mistakes" would be punished.
The official
MENA news agency said the arrests were ordered after a forensic report revealed
that the man had died after being beaten on his neck and back.
The nine
policemen are suspected of either participating in the beating, approving it or
not preventing it, a judicial official said, speaking on condition of
anonymity.
The man had
been arrested on November 26 from a cafe in southern city Luxor and taken to
the police station where he died an hour later.
Another police
officer has been detained in a separate case of a veterinarian who died in
police custody last month in the Suez Canal city of Ismailiya.
Rights groups
regularly accuse Egyptian police and members of the intelligence services of
abusing and torturing detainees.
Source:khaleejtimes
