Egypt's general prosecution released on bail Thursday 19 members of the die-hard football fan group Ultras Ahlawy, arrested days earlier on charges of blocking roads. The 19 convicted will have to pay a LE2,000 bail (around $290) each.
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Two died and 18 were injured in the overturn of a bus transporting police conscriptsin the southern province of Minya, according to Egypt's state news agency MENA.
The bus was overturned after a collision with a farm tractor, MENA said.
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The North Cairo Criminal Court has upheld requests filed by the General Prosecution demanding freezing the assets of a number of Muslim Brotherhood leaders and several of their allies.
The court approved freezing the assets of 25 Brotherhood (...)
Cairo Criminal Court adjourned on Saturday the re-trial of ousted president Hosni Mubarak, his two sons, former Interior Minister Habib El-Adly, and a number of El-Adly's aides, to 19 October.
The court has earmarked sessions on October 19, 20 and (...)
Islamist preacher and Muslim Brotherhood ally Safwat Hegazy has been acquitted for charges of 'inciting violence' at the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters on 30 June, which left eight dead.
Hegazy, who was detained earlier in August, still faces a (...)
An Egyptian military court on Tuesday sentenced a Muslim Brotherhood member to life in prison for violence targeting the army in the port city of Suez last month.
Forty-eight other members received sentences of between 5 to 15 years in prison, while (...)
The Alexandria Criminal Court adjourned Saturday to 1 October the retrial of policemen accused of torturing to death 28-year-old Khaled Said in 2010.
The retrial, which began 1 June, comes after the two defendants, Mahmoud Salah Mahmoud and Awad (...)
The General Prosecution has ordered the 15-day detention of the Muslim Brotherhood's former Minister of Manpower, Khaled El-Azhary, pending investigations.
Al-Azhary has been accused of inciting violence leading to the killing of opponents of ousted (...)
Egypt's General Prosecution has ordered the detention of 106 suspects accused of torching churches and public property in Upper Egypt's Minya governorate. They will be detained for 15 days pending investigation.
Tens of churches have been attacked (...)
A Cairo court has renewed the detention of 141 people, reportedly supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi, for 45 days pending investigations into mid-July's Cairo clashes.
The detainees are charged with rioting, demonstrating, damaging public (...)
Muslim Brotherhood leading figure and former Shura Council member Sobhy Saleh was arrested on Saturday in Alexandria's King Mariout.
Over 1000 Muslim Brotherhood members have been arrested during the past week, including prominent Brotherhood (...)
Leading Muslim Brotherhood member and former MP Ali Fath El-Bab was arrested on Wednesday in Cairo's district of Helwan.
Security forces have conducted a recent crackdown on prominent Brotherhood members and leaders since the dispersal of two main (...)
Egypt's High State Security Prosecution has ordered 15-day detention of the son of Muslim Brotherhood businessman Hassan Malek, Omar Malek, on charges of inciting and particpating in violence leading to death.
Brotherhood members Hazem Farouq and (...)
On Wednesday, southern Cairo prosecution services ordered a 15-day detention, pending investigation, of former Muslim Brotherhood Youth Minister Osama Yassin on charges of inciting the killing of protesters at the Brotherhood headquarters in Cairo's (...)
A Cairo criminal court deferred on Sunday the first hearing of Mohamed Badie, the former supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, and his two deputies, all charged with inciting the murder of protesters.
The new hearing is now scheduled for 29 (...)
The detention of Salafist figure Hazem Salah Abu-Ismail, leading Muslim Brotherhood member Helmy El-Gazzar, former MP Mohamed Omda, Brotherhood lawyer Abdel-Moneim Abdel-Maqsoud and Wasat Party head Abu El-Ela Madi has been extended for another 15 (...)
The trial of 33 accused of involvement in sectarian violence that took place in Qalioubiya's Khosous last April was adjourned on Saturday until 21 September.
The case was postponed due to security forces' inability to transport the accused from (...)
Egypt's Administrative Court has set 5 October to examine the case concerning the re-airing of Al-Nas, Al-Hafez and Al-Khalijia Channels after they were closed during the ouster of former president Mohamed Morsi on 3 July.
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The North Cairo Criminal Court has adjourned the re-trial of Mubarak era Petroleum Minister Sameh Fahmy and five of his associates in the Egypt-Israel gas case to 26 October, after fining them EGP 10 thousand.
The accused are to pay the stated (...)