1003 Police Get Three Years for Manslaughter
Cairo – A court in the southern Egyptian city of Sohag sentenced two policemen to three years in jail on Saturday for dragging a man to his death behind a car, the state news agency MENA reported.
The officers were charged with manslaughter as they were not accused of killing the man deliberately.
The victim, fruit-seller Emad Tayi, had clung to the police vehicle in protest at the arrest of a relative, who was being driven away to a station for questioning.
Tayi, 48, was dragged some 500m, resulting in his death, MENA reported.
The two officers, Mahmud Sadawi and Anwar Mohammed Omran, were released on bail pending appeal.
It’s not the callousness of the policemen, who were able to continue driving for a half a kilometer while a man held on to the back of their car, that grieves me. It’s the love and loyalty that Emad Tayi showed by hanging on to the car until he died. The next time I meet someone from Sohag and say “ahsan nas” (the best people), I will think of Emad, and I will really mean it.
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