Court upholds sentences against 8 Muslim Brotherhood members over Tahrir citizen torture charges

The Court of Cassation upheld on Wednesday jail sentences against eight members and leaders of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood over charges of torturing a citizen at Tahrir Square following January 25 revolution of 2011.

Cairo Criminal Court sentenced in November MB members Mohamed Beltagui, Sawfat Hegazi, Hazem Mohamed Farouk, and Ahmed Mansour, fugitive, to 15 years in jail over charges of holding a man inside a travel agency in Tahrir square, assaulting him and torturing him by electric shock.

The remaining four defendants, including counselor Mahmoud Khodairi and former youths minister Osama Yassin were handed down three-year jail sentences.

The Public Persecution was investigating a complaint by a citizen that he was arrested by a group of people on February 3, 2011, during demonstrations that followed January 25 revolution and that he was beaten up by them.

The attackers claimed he was an officer of the state security service and that he was spying on protesters camping out at the square.

After assaulting him, the man, who turned to be a lawyer, was taken to one of the travel agencies located at Tahrir square where he was kept for three days.

Khodairi, one of the defendants, confessed during investigations that he was present at the travel company when the citizen was being tortured by electric shock.

Sources: MENA