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Egyptian policemen sentenced to life jail for killing driver

Xinhua, April 2, 2016 Adjust font size:

An Egyptian criminal court sentenced on Saturday a policeman to life imprisonment, which is 25 years according to the Egyptian law, for killing a driver in a dispute over fare, official MENA news agency reported.

Policeman Mostafa Mahmoud Abdel-Haseeb was convicted of deliberately killing three-wheeled vehicle driver Mohamed Sayyid Ali, 26, in mid-February at Al-Darb al-Ahmar neighborhood in Cairo using his police gun after a dispute over the fare owed by the policeman to the driver.

The case triggered public anger amid growing claims of police abuses, especially that it came a few days after thousands of doctors staged a protest over alleged assault by policemen against two doctors who refused to fake a medical report for them.

One day after the killing of the driver, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi urged the newly-elected parliament for legislative amendments or new laws to restrain police abuses in the most populous Arab country.

The Egyptian police have been criticized after the deaths of some detainees in police stations over the past couple of years.

Erupting on the national Police Day in Egypt, an 18-day uprising toppled longtime leader Hosni Mubarak in 2011. Endit