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British, American Muslims Clai
Eight British and American Shiite Muslims who said they were arrested and tortured by religious police as they prayed during a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia called Friday for a full inquiry into their ordeal.
The group, some of Iraqi descent and aged between 16 and 26, told a London news conference they had been detained and beaten by police during their visit to holy city of Mecca.
One member of the group is Amir Taqi, the 23-year-old son of Ridha Jawad Taqi, a senior Iraqi lawmaker in the Supreme Islamic Council of Iraq, the country's biggest Shiite political party.
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EGYPT: Death sentence for police officer who killed protesters
A criminal court in Cairo sentenced a police officer to death Sunday for killing protesters, the first death penalty imposed since the revolution that ousted former President Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian state TV reported Monday.
The court sentenced Mohammed Mahmud Abdul Mun'em in absentia for killing 20 protesters and wounding 15 more on Jan. 28, a day when hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Egypt.
The court found Mun'em had fired randomly at demonstrators, Nile TV said. Authorities have been unable to locate Mun'em, and it was not immediately clear what evidence had been presented against him.
Former Interior Minister Habib Adly was sentenced to 12 years in prison for corruption and faces a separate trial for his alleged role in ordering the killings of protesters. The trial of Adly and four aides was postponed Sunday until June 26 after families of the victims attempted to force their way into the courtroom north of Cairo, shouting of "Butcher!"
In a report issued earlier this month, the nonprofit advocacy organization Amnesty International estimated that at least 840 people were killed and more than 6,000 wounded during protests that led Mubarak to step down Feb. 11. Officials of the organization reported they found evidence that Egyptian security forces used excessive force against protesters, many of whom died from gunshot wounds to the head and chest.
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