Egypt’s Public Prosecutor has set up a panel of judges to look into claims of police torture before and after a popular revolt that ousted President Hosni Mubarak. According to a report on the News24 site, the three-judge panel, headed by Mostafa Sharafeddine, will ‘examine cases of torture in police stations and whether they happened before or after the 25 January revolution’. Routine police abuse and torture were prevalent during the Mubarak era and were a driving force behind the massive popular protests that ousted him on 11 February. The most high-profile case to have dominated headlines and sparked demonstrations was of Khaled Said, a 28-year-old man beaten to death by two undercover police officers on an Alexandria street last year.
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