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Video shows Egypt prisoner's h
CAIRO, Egypt — The footage is shocking: A man lies screaming on the floor of a police station as officers sodomize him with a wooden pole.
Compounding the shock, it turns out that it was the police who made the film, and that they then transmitted it to the cell phones of the victim's friends in order to humiliate him.
For Egypt, the ordeal of 21-year-old Emad el-Kabir has been something of a Rodney King moment — a sudden, stark glimpse of a reality which authorities routinely deny, but which human rights groups say is part of a pattern of police brutality.
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06 November 2007
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Rwanda fires 127 police office
Rwanda's police force has expelled 127 police officers accused of extorting bribes and other crimes including assault and murder, the national police said on Tuesday.
Nearly half of those fired on Monday were accused of bribery, while the remainder were accused of various cases of gross misconduct, police spokesman Marcel Higiro said.
"We are trying to build an enlightened, professional and accountable police force," police spokesman Marcel Higiro said. "If we are to achieve these goals, we then have no room for the bad apples -- they have to be eliminated."
Most of those fired will also face criminal prosecution, he said.
The tiny central African nation has about 5,000 police officers to watch over a population of 9.4 million. Most officers are former rebel fighters who helped stop the 1994 genocide carried out by Hutu extremists with backing from the government then in power.
Bribery is fairly rampant among Africa's police ranks, where officers are often paid poorly and infrequently held accountable.
Rwandan President Paul Kagame, the Tutsi rebel leader who overthrew the Hutu regime in 1994, has preached zero tolerance for corruption and misconduct and has often moved to make examples of those who disobey.
Nonetheless, rights groups have accused the government of turning a blind eye to extrajudicial killings by police and security agents carried out on opponents of his regime. Kagame's government has denied any wrongdoing.
Rwanda formed its police force after the 1994 genocide in which 800,000 people were killed, mainly to deal with internal security challenges emanating from the aftermath of the slaughter.
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