Dozens of lawyers protested at Mallawy General Hospital in Minya Wednesday evening after a police officer assaulted a lawyer, resulting in a cut below the eyebrow, according to the claim filed by the victim, Yassin Salah.
The prosecution summoned officer Bishoy Adel for interrogation.
Major General Hassan Saif, Minya's security director, received a complaint from Salah accusing Adel, a police captain, of beating him after he attempted to give a defendant some drinking water in the dock at court.
Adel asked Salah not to give the defendant the bottle as it is not allowed, which lead to an altercation that ended up with Salah being beaten.
Minya Lawyers' Syndicate head, Tarek Fouda, said he met with the protesting lawyers to calm them down after security officials promised to investigate the incident.
The Mallawy Chief of Detectives, Mohamed Essmat, said efforts are being made to end the crisis between the lawyer and the police officer, amicably.
Mallawy hospital director Adel Saad said Salah's cut is one centimeter long under his left eyebrow.
The incident is the second of its kind in two months, after three lawyers accused a police officer at Maghagha police station of insulting them earlier.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
