CAIRO – 9 June 2022: Egypt’s Court of Cassation upheld on Thursday a three-year-prison sentence against a police officer at Mokattam police station over the death of a detainee in 2018 in the case known as “Afroto murder”.
The policeman was handed the prison sentences in November 2018 and another policeman was sentenced to six months in prison over beating the young victim to death at the police station and detaining him without a legal ground.
The cassation court ordered concluding the legal lawsuit against the other policeman after he spent his whole prison term.
The committee formed by the Forensic Medicine Department confirmed in July that Mohamed Abdel Hakim (aka Afroto) died after being beaten, refuting former claims of his death as a result of a drug overdose.
By measuring the concentration of drugs in Afroto’s body, the forensic report found that the victim did not abuse any deadly overdose of drugs. The report also found that the severe injuries caused by assaulting the victim were the certain cause of his death.
Moreover, the forensic report said that the rolls possessed by Afroto were filled with about 10 grams of a green plant which is not on the Egyptian prohibited list of drugs.
Interrogations also showed that Afroto, accused by the police of abusing drugs, was illegally kept in custody.
According to the prosecution’s decision, a policeman is accused of pushing down Afroto, while the other defendant is accused of kicking him in the chest causing him the injuries cited in a former forensic report.
In its statement, the prosecution accused both policemen of beating the victim to death without the intention to kill him.
A former forensic report revealed that the cause of Afroto’s death was an internal bleeding caused by a broken rib, and a laceration in the left lung due to a severe hit on a solid object.
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