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Khaled Abuzarifa deportation death update

By Liz Fekete

16 December 2002

An appeal court has reduced the sentence on a doctor found guilty of the manslaughter of Khaled Abuzarifa, a Palestinian who died in March 1999, during a forced deportation operation via Zurich-Kloten airport.

The appeal court reduced the sentence from five to three months suspended imprisonment. The doctor was found to have failed to check whether Abuzarifa had undergone a medical check before the deportation operation began, to examine his breathing difficulties, to give the escorting police officers relevant instructions on the transportation of a gagged prisoner, and to have misled the officers by stating that the patient was only pretending to be experiencing breathing difficulties.

While two police officers were acquitted of the manslaughter of Abuzarifa, the case against a third officer, is still ongoing.

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