Trial of Eight Police Officers Who Tortured a Worker to Death Postponed

 Cairo Criminal Court, headed by Councillor Adel Abdel Salam Gomaa, postponed the second hearing in the trial of two officers, four policemen and two soldiers in Maadi police station, until January 22, 2011. They were charged with torturing and beating a worker to death after detaining him at the police station with no charges. The hearing was postponed because the lawyer of the first defendant did not attend the hearing with no excuse.  
The General Prosecution referred both Major Yaser El-Shenawy, head of Helwan State Security Investigations, Assistant Head of Maadi State Security Investigation and Captain Ahmed El-Shabrawy in Maadi Insurance police station and four policemen: Waleed Salem, Abdel Nabi Abdel Hamid, Mohamed Shaaban, Yaser Ramadan, and two soldiers: Mohamed Hassan and Zakaria Shaaban to the Criminal Court. Investigations proved that the first defendant summoned 40-year-old Fathi Fowzy, to the police station and detained him for four days, after which the other defendants assaulted and beat him with a sharp instrument on his body and head which caused his death.