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Egypt jails cops for parading man in ladies wear

An Egyptian court has convicted and jailed three police officers for beating a prisoner in the port city of Alexandria and humiliating him by forcing him to wear women's clothing in public, judicial sources said on Saturday.The court convicted Yusri Ahmed Issa, an officer, of torture and of assaulting the prisoner's honor, and sentenced him to five years in jail. Two other lower-ranking policemen were sentenced to a year each.The sources said the police officers had forced Ibrahim Abbas, who was suspected of theft, to put on women's clothing and walk in the streets of Alexandria on Egypt's northern Mediterranean coast in April 2006. They also beat him with batons inside the police station, the sources said.

The court ruling came two months after a Cairo court sentenced two policemen to three years in prison for torturing a minibus driver by sodomizing him with a stick, in a case that sparked public outrage in Egypt and drew international criticism.Egypt has come under increasing public scrutiny in recent years over the treatment of detainees. Rights groups say the abuse can include electric shocks and beatings. They say most abuse cases never make it to court, and torture convictions resulting in jail time are relatively rare.Egypt says it opposes torture and prosecutes policemen against whom it has evidence that they tortured

Bahrain king issues human trafficking law

Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa has issued a law to combat human trafficking, the kingdom's state news agency said on Wednesday."The law stipulates that the penalty for a human trafficking crime would be prison and a fine ranging from 2,000 Bahrain dinars ($5,319) to 10,000 dinars," the Bahrain News Agency (BNA) said on its website.The law also calls for the formation of a committee to combat human trafficking. The BNA did not say whether the law was now in effect.
Like other Gulf Arab states, Bahrain relies heavily on expatriate labor -- about a third of the island's population of 743,000 people are foreign workers -- and has been criticized by rights groups for not doing enough to protect them. The majority of Bahrain's immigrant workers are from South Asia, and are often lured to the island kingdom with promises of wages or working conditions that are not honored on arrival -- something that would qualify as human trafficking under the new law.In November, the United Arab Emirates enacted a law to make human trafficking punishable by life imprisonment, and has set up a state body to combat the transfer of people for work by force or under false pretences.Human trafficking affects virtually every region in the world and U.N. estimates say the trade could be worth some $32 billion in both "sales" of individuals and the value of their exploited labor

Egypt soldiers found in mass grave near Israel

The bodies of 30 Egyptian soldiers believed killed in the 1967 Arab-Israeli War were found in a mass grave in the Sinai desert close to the Israeli border on Wednesday, a security source said.The uniformed bodies were exhumed near Sheikh Zuwayed between the Mediterranean coastal city of El-Arish and the Egypt-Gaza border town of Rafah after a Bedouin informed police of the discovery.Forensic experts must examine the remains to establish whether they were buried after being killed in combat or executed, the source said, adding that the bodies "probably" dated from the 1967 Six Day War.The Sinai Peninsula was the scene of fighting between Egypt and Israel in 1948, 1956, 1967 and 1973. Egypt became the first Arab nation to sign a peace treaty with Israel in 1979.
Meanwhile, Egypt's parliamentary defense and national security committee is to meet next week to ask the government to investigate the recent discovery of bodies believed to be of Egyptian soldiers in the Israeli resort of Eilat.Egyptian media reported that the bodies found during construction work in Eilat, on the Red Sea next to Egypt, were also wearing uniforms and were found with pages of the Quran.Egypt asked the International Committee of the Red Cross in April to launch an inquiry into claims made in a documentary that Israeli troops executed Egyptian prisoners during the 1967 war.The documentary, screened on Israeli public television, said that 250 Egyptian PoWs were killed by Israel's Shaked commando near El-Arish during the conflict.The director of the film subsequently said he had mistakenly identified Palestinian fighters who were killed in combat as Egyptian prisoners