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Year: 2008
Pigs dragged man to death
AFP reports…
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.
Court rules in favor of Qursaya residents
Sarah Carr reports…
Cairo’s Administrative Court ruled Saturday in favor of residents of an island in Giza who had been threatened with eviction from their homes.
The court verdict quashes a prime ministerial decree which would have removed the roughly 5,000 inhabitants from their homes on El-Qorsaya island.
Many of the roughly 1,000 fishermen and 4,000 farmers who constitute El-Qorsaya’s population have lived on the island for generations since the island was first inhabited in the 19th century.
Last year, bulldozers protected by army troops arrived on El-Qorsaya — which lies in a prime location in Cairo — amid rumors that it would be converted into a tourist complex.
The islanders responded by launching a media campaign against the plans, residents saying that as farmers and fishermen they would be unable to sustain their way of life away from the island.
The court case was launched in 2007.