Court rules family of Khaled Said, victim of police brutality in 2010, receive LE1M in compensation

CAIRO – 30 December 2021: The brothers of Khaled Said, a man who was beaten to death by low-ranking police officers in June 2010 in Alexandria, building up momentum for the Jan. 25 Revolution in 2011, will receive a compensation of L.E. one million per a Thursday court order.

The Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights (ECESR) filed the lawsuit on behalf of Said’s brother and mother in 2018, demanding L.E. two million in compensation. The mother, however, passed away in 2019. Her son was 28 years old when he died.

In October 2011, Alexandria Criminal Court sentenced the two officers to seven years in prison. The defendants’ appeal was accepted, and they were tried once again and given a sentence of 10 years in prison in March 2014. They appealed once more, but the Cassation Court upheld their penalty in March 2015. They have supposedly been released as the 10 years have passed.

The lawyer of ECESR, Mohamed Abdel Azim, said he would appeal the ruling to raise the figure of the compensation.