CAIRO - An Egyptian court sentenced a man who has accused police of sexually assaulting him to three months in jail on charges related to the same incident.
Cairo minibus driver Imad al-Kabir became an international cause celebre after a video circulated on Egyptian blogs in November showedhim lying on the floor, naked from the waist down, as unidentified men sodomised him with a stick.
Kabir's lawyer has said his client was tortured by police officers in January 2006 in a station in the west Cairo suburb of Bulaq al-Dakrur after he tried to intervene in a dispute between the police and his brother.
He was convicted and sent to prison for three months with hard labour for resisting and obstructing the authorities and assaulting a policeman.
The two policemen accused of torturing Kabir, Captain Islam Nabih and Corporal Reda Fathi, appeared in the same court on Tuesday in the early stages of their separate trial.
