The president of Egypt has promised to crack down on police brutality<br /><br /> Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has decided to act as public anger mounts over alleged abuses.<br /><br /> When a doctor told a policeman in Cairo that his cut didn’t need stitches, officers beat him, detained him: https://t.co/qlTL2XEDz7— The Associated Press (@AP) February 12, 2016<br /><br /> It comes as doctors in Cairo have staged a rare protest in support of two colleagues who they say were beaten by police for refusing to falsify medical records.<br /><br /> Anger over police abuses helped fuel the 2011 uprising in Egypt.<br /><br /> The government says all alleged violations are investigated.<br /><br /> Earlier this month, the body of an Italian student was found on the outskirts of Cairo bearing, what activists say, were marks of torture.
