CAIRO, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- The Egyptian prosecution referred on Sunday six policemen to criminal court over charges of torturing a detained young man to death inside a police station in the capital Cairo, state-run Al-Ahram news website reported.

The prosecution referred the chief detective of Hadayek al-Kobba police station, another police officer and four non-commissioned policemen over killing the detained young man in June.

According to the report, the six policemen face charges of "using cruelty, violence and torture to death and falsifying an official report."

The prosecution also ordered autopsy of the youth's body.

Some human rights groups claim the presence of incidents of police brutality in Egypt while the government refers to them as individual cases whose perpetrators are immediately punished.