Six Egyptian policemen are charged with torturing a prisoner to death, state media reported, a rare case against law enforcement over alleged abuses in custody.
Prosecutors allege the officers tortured a young man accused of robbery to death in June, at a police station in Cairo, after conducting an autopsy on the body, state-run newspaper Al-Ahram says.
Rights groups have regularly denounced the security forces under President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi over the alleged widespread use of torture.
The authorities insist that there are no state-sanctioned abuses carried out by law enforcement, and that any cases are down to individual officers.
In May, an appeals court acquitted two police officers who had been jailed for allegedly beating to death a detained lawyer in 2015.
The two officers had been sentenced to five years prison for torturing and beating Karim Hamdi to death in a Cairo police station after a pro-Islamist protest.
— AFP
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