Egypt's administrative court suspended on Wednesday the annulment of the allocation of 3 million square metres of land to the touristic projects company Porto Venice for development in the Red Sea resort of Ain Sokhna.
The final verdict awaits the (...)
South Sinai prosecution said on Saturday that casualties from the Sinai bus accident increased from 38 to 44.
Early Friday morning two buses collided resulting in the deaths of 38 passengers on Friday and the injury of 41 others.
Burial certificates (...)
Giza criminal court referred the death sentence for five defendants involved in the shooting of security personnel at Virgin Mary church in January to Grand Mufti, Shawqi Allam for approval.
The court said on Saturday that it will issue its final (...)
A court in Ismailiya adjourned Saturday to 21 September the retrial of all 73 defendants accused of participation in the Port Said Stadium massacre.
The defendants were originally given sentences rangingfrom 15 years to life in prison.
In February, (...)
Cairo criminal court sentenced on Wednesday, 17 supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in absentia to life in prison on charges of rioting in Cairo's El-Manial district.
The court has also sentenced one defendant to 15 years in prison (...)
The defence lawyer for two Al Jazeera journalists has appealed their seven-year jail sentences.
Mostafa Nagy, lawyer for Baher Mohamed and Peter Greste, told Ahram Online that he had submitted an appeal on Wednesday to Cairo`s appeal (...)
Farid El-Deeb, the lawyer of ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, has appealed a May ruling which sentenced the longtime autocrat and his two sons to jail for embezzling funds earmarked for the renovation of presidential palaces.
The verdict in (...)
Cairo's criminal court on Sunday adjourned the espionage case of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi and 35 other defendants to 14 September.
The court also lifted the trial's media ban, issued by Egypt's prosecutor-general in November (...)
Three pro-Morsi protesters were killed and dozens injured in clashes with the police during rallies in the capital on Friday afternoon, a security source told Ahram Online.
According to the security source two protesters were killed in (...)
Ezz, the secretary-general of Hosni Mubarak's National Democratic Party (NDP), was accused of playing the major role in orchestrating the rigging of 2010 parliamentary electionsa few weeks before the 25 January 2011.
He was arrested shortly after (...)
A Giza court has confirmed the death sentences of 12 supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohamed Morsi Wednesday. The sentences have been handed down on charges of killing Major General Nabil Farrag, when demonstrators stormed a police station (...)
A misdemeanour court on Saturday fined Islamist politician Essam Sultan LE15,000 on charges of slandering former presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq.
Sultan, a leading figure in the Wasat Party who is in prison facing a number of charges, is accused (...)
The funds of 66 companies reportedly affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood are to be seized by the Egyptian government, a committee tasked with appraising and freezing the funds of the banned organisation decided on Thursday.
The committee will (...)
The Mattariya prosecution in Greater Cairo ordered on Tuesday the 15-day detention of a man pending investigation into his alleged creation of a Facebook page titled "Mattariya against the Coup" inciting to violence against members of the (...)
Magdy Qorqor, arrested Monday after security forces raided his home, also faces charges of obstructing the constitution and joining a banned organisation, in reference to the Muslim Brotherhood
Egypt's State Security Prosecution has charged (...)
A reporter for the Qatar-based Al Jazeera network was sentenced on Wednesday to three years in prison and a LE10,000 fine.
Abdel-Rahman Shahin, arrested last April in Suez, was accused of torching police stations, vandalising public property, (...)
A Cairo court on Wednesday referred 23 activists to a misdemeanour court on charges of violating the country's protest law.
The defendants were arrested last Saturday during a rally organised to denounce the very same law which led to their (...)
A Cairo appeals court on Sunday acquitted 64 non-Islamist protesters on charges of illegal assembly and rioting.
The defendants – 68 in total – were previously sentenced to two years in prison and had appealed the ruling.
The remaining four (...)
Cairo Criminal Court sentenced Saturday 14 Al-Azhar University students to seven years in maximum security prison.
The court also sentenced 10 underage defendants to three years in prison, one defendant to five years, a one-year suspended sentence (...)
The judges have withdrawn from the retrial of 11 defendants in the Port Said stadium case, citing personal and legal conflicts, a judicial source has said.
The trial has been adjourned until 10 August.
Eleven of the original 73 defendants are being (...)
An Egyptian criminal court sentenced 12 people of ousted Islamist President supporters to death on Wednesday on charges of attacking a police station in the Giza town of Kerdasa and killing a senior police officer, a judicial source (...)
Al Jazeera journalist Abdullah El-Shamy, who has been on hunger strike since January, was granted release on Monday by Egypt's general prosecutor for health reasons.
Twelve other detainees were also released for medical reasons, according to a (...)
A Cairo court has set 23 June for when it will announce a verdict in the trial of Al Jazeera English reporters accused of fabricating news reports and aiding the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.
During Monday's session – the trial's 13th – Shaaban (...)
The Court for Urgent Matters has officially labelled Agnad Misr (Soldiers of Egypt) a terrorist organization.
Lawyer Ahmed Soliman, who filed the lawsuit that led to the decision, said the group had claimed responsibility for a number of terrorist (...)
Alexandria's criminal court on Wednesday handed out jail sentences of five to 10 years to 86 supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi on charges of murder, attempted murder and rioting, judicial sources said.
Sources said the verdict is (...)