"Egyptian officers accused of brutality on trial" by Associated Press | July 28, 2010
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt — The victim’s lawyers in a trial of two Egyptian policemen involved in the death of a young man demanded yesterday that the defendants face torture charges in a case that has focused national attention on police brutality in Egypt.
Khaled Said died June 6, and witnesses say the two policemen dragged him out of an Internet cafe in the northern port city of Alexandria and beat him to death. Two state autopsies, however, insisted Said died of suffocation after swallowing a packet of drugs....
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