MONTREAL - A Quebec court judge has overturned the majority of the sanctions against two Montreal police officers who were suspended for lying about their interactions with an inmate who died in custody in 2017.

Judge Alexandre Henri ruled that police watchdog investigators had not informed the officers of their right to remain silent when questioning them on the circumstances surrounding the death of David Tshiteya Kalubi.

Quebec's police ethics board had suspended the officers for 22 days, but Henri invalidated 20 of those on the grounds that the board wrongly refused to exclude material provided to watchdog investigators.

The officers had not appealed the other two days of their suspension.

"In the circumstances, the court is of the opinion that the protection of the fundamental rig

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