The Justice Ministry has tasked three judges with investigating four instances of human rights abuses allegedly committed by policemen, as per a request made by the National Council of Human Rights, the ministry said Monday.
The NCHR on Thursday had called for an investigation into police assaults on political activists.
It cited attacks on activist Taqadum al-Khatib from the National Association of Change, Khaled al-Sayed from the 25 January Revolution Youth Coalition, Haggag Nayel from the Arab Program for Human Rights Activists and Mohamed Fahim, a company owner from Mansoura.
Police violations had been a major driving force behind last January’s revolution against former President Hosni Mubarak’s regime. Activists have been calling on authorities to purge the Interior Ministry of officials who served under now-imprisoned former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly.
