An Egyptian court on Sunday sentenced six people to seven years each in prison for beating a Frenchman to death in 2013 while they were all being held together in a police cell in the capital Cairo.
The Frenchman, Eric Lang, was a teacher living in Cairo. He was arrested in September 2013 for violating a night-time curfew in place at that time, Reuters news agency repots security sources to say.
Land is said to have ben drunk, and police detained him when they found he had no valid residency permit.
The six men convicted on Sunday had been Lang’s cellmates, and had beaten the teacher to death, according to a prosecution document and the judicial source.
French President Francois Hollande told a news conference during a visit to Cairo last month that he had raised the case of Lang and that of Italian student Giulio Regeni in his meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
