Court upholds 10-year sentence for Khaled Saeed’s killers
The Court of Cassation rejected the appeal of two officers sentenced to 10 years in prison for killing Alexandrian revolutionary icon Khaled Saeed in 2010 on Wednesday.
The death of Khaled Saeed is largely seen as the breaking point that mobilized people to take to the streets in 2011, overthrowing 30-year dictator Hosni Mubarak.
Saeed was killed in June 2010 after police officers reportedly pulled him out of an internet café in an Alexandrian neighborhood and beat him to death.
In October 2011, the two officers accused of killing Saeed were sentenced to seven years in prison. However, the Court of Cassation ordered their retrial and a new criminal court sentenced the two to 10 years in prison in March 2014.
The Court of Cassation's ruling today makes the verdict against the two officers final.
Zohra Saeed, Khaled’s sister, told Mada Masr that the family is not satisfied with the verdict, and believes that a death sentence for the defendants is the only fair outcome.
“No matter what sentence they get, it won’t bring him back,” she said.
Zohra added that public attention to the case has dwindled throughout the years, and speculates that the ability of the case to mobilize the public is not nearly where it was in 2011.
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