Egypt police, army officers probed over alleged torture

CAIRO — Four police and army officers were referred to the military prosecution on Thursday, after a video was posted online showing officers assaulting two detainees, the official MENA news agency reported.

The footage circulating on social networking websites shows members of the army and security forces slapping and tasering two handcuffed detainees.

Egypt’s military ruler Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi had ordered an investigation into the incident, which took place in the Nile Delta province of Daqahliya, MENA said.

On Wednesday, London-based advocacy group Amnesty International said that based, on the video posted, detainees “are still being subjected to torture and other ill-treatment in Egypt.”

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