A Cairo court sentenced on Thursday a sacked judge and two others to 15 years in prison each for kidnapping and raping a woman at a private villa on the country's North Coast.
The woman, who was working at a real estate financing office owned by the (...)
Egyptian prosecutors ordered on Sunday evening the release of famous Egyptian YouTuber Shady Srour pending investigation into charges of spreading false news and misusing social media.
Srour, who was arrested in December 2019, also faces charges (...)
An Egyptian court requested Interpol issue a notice to arrest and extradite fugitive contractor Mohamed Ali and two others on Sunday, who are charged with spreading fake news, endangering national peace and joining an illegal group.
The court also (...)
Egypt's Prisons Authority ordered on Tuesday the release of 2,075 inmates on the occasion of Eid Al-Adha and the 59th anniversary of the 1952 revolution.
The prisoners were released with a presidential pardon in accordance with presidential decree (...)
Egypt's Public Prosecution ordered on Sunday the release of activist Mahienour El-Masry, and journalists, Motaz Wadnan and Mostafa El-Asar, pending investigation into charges of publishing false news, a statement said.
Legal sources said the release (...)
Egypt's investigating authorities have released journalist Gamal El-Gamal, politician Abdel-Nasser Ismail and activist Esraa Abdel-Fattah after months in pre-trial detention over charges that include joining a terrorist group, a statement said.
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A famous dentist accused of harassing male patients while providing dental care at his clinic was sentenced to 16 years of rigorous imprisonment by an Egyptian criminal court on Thursday.
The official charges levelled against the dentist is (...)
Egypt's prosecution annulled the asset freeze on Alaa and Gamal, the sons of late ousted president Hosni Mubarak after being exonerated of charges of illicit gains.
The decision renders Alaa Mubarak, his wife, and son, as well as Gamal Mubarak, (...)
An Egyptian court on Monday sought the religious opinion of the country's grand mufti on preliminary death sentences handed down to 10 people over drug smuggling offences.
The case involves 7 Pakistanis, one Iranian, and two Egyptians who were (...)
Egypt's Prosecutor-General Hamda El-Sawy received on Wednesday in Paris 114 Egyptian artefacts that had been smuggled into France.
According to the office of the prosecutor-general, the Egyptian prosecution's investigations, in cooperation with (...)
At least four people were killed and 26 were injured in Egypt after a train smashed into two buses carrying workers in Cairo's Helwan district.
A number of ambulances, civil protection personnel, and police officers have bee dispatched to the (...)
An Egyptian court on Sunday postponed a hearing in the case filed by the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) against the owners of Ever Given vessel, which blocked the waterway for six days in March, for further negotiations to "amicably" settle the (...)
Egypt's prosecution referred a Cairo International Airport employee to a criminal court for stealthily taking photos of a woman.
The assaulter was arrested shortly after the victim had gone on a live stream, accusing him of taking a photo of her (...)
An employee at Cairo International Airport has been convicted of taking non-consensual photos of a woman at the airport and has been sentenced to three years in prison and an EGP 20,000 fine.
The Cairo misdemeanour court convicted the defendant of (...)
Egypt's Public Prosecution said on Tuesday it handed documents to the Italian side that refute alleged involvement of Egyptian officers in the disappearance and murder of Italian researcher Giulio Regeni in Cairo in 2016 amid an ongoing trial in (...)
Egypt's Public Prosecution orders detention of four officials over a deadly fire at a juvenile detention center in Cairo that killed six children.
The fire at Al-Marg juvenile center on Thursday also left more than two dozens wounded.
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An Egyptian economic court adjourned on Saturday the trial on the giant Ever Given containership that blocked Egypt's strategic Suez Canal for six days in March to allow for further negotiations on the compensation value.
The Ismailia Economic Court (...)
Egyptian and Russian prosecutors agreed on a continued judicial cooperation to "reach the truth" over the deadly Russian passenger plane crash in Sinai in 2015.
A statement by the Egyptian prosecutor general's office on Tuesday said Egyptian (...)
Security authorities executed defrocked monk Wael Saad Tawadros, commonly known as Isaiah El-Maqary, after the Court of Cassation upheld his death sentence in July 2020 for killing Bishop Epiphanius, the head of Abu Makar Monastery in summer (...)
Nine people were executed on Monday over their involvement in an attack on Giza's Kerdasa police station in August 2013 that killed several policemen, sources said.
The execution was carried out at Wadi Al-Natrun prison in the early hours of (...)
Egypt's Public Prosecution ordered on Tuesday the detention of a driver, his assistant and two others for four days pending investigations into the deadly derailment accident of a passenger train that was on its way from Cairo to the Nile Delta city (...)
Egyptian prosecution ordered on Monday night the release of journalist Sulafa Magdy and her husband photojournalist Hossam El-Sayyad pending investigation in charges of "joining a terrorist group and misusing social media platforms".
The release of (...)
Egypt's Court of Cassation sentenced on Wednesday nine people to life over terrorism charges and acquitted 41 others in the case known in the media as "the violent incidents of Al-Maghara" in Sohag.
The court also handed a 15-year prison sentence (...)
Egypt has referred on Monday three defendants from the high-profile case known as the 'Cairo Fairmont hotel rape case' to criminal court for another rape that dates back to 2015, a statement by the general prosecutor's office read.
The prosecution (...)
Three people were referred on Monday to criminal court for causing a woman to fall to her death from the balcony of her sixth-floor apartment in Cairo after they broke into her home.
The three suspects, wielding wooden sticks and rope, entered the (...)