South Cairo criminal court will hold the first session of the Ezz El-Dekheila retrial case on 12 April where steel tycoon Ahmed Ezz and six other former state officials face charges of profiteering and squandering public funds.
Ezz was sentenced to (...)
An Egyptian criminal court on Monday ordered the release of steel tycoon Ahmed Ezz on condition of paying a LE2 million bail, on charges of illegal acquisition of the state's giant steel plant Ezz El-Dekheila.
In September 2013, Ezz's release was (...)
A Cairo criminal court on Wednesday handed down sentences of seven years to life to 51 people accused of raiding the Nile City towers buildings in 2012.
In August 2012, Ahmed Fathi, a resident of Ramlet Boulaq, a low-income area next to Cairo's (...)
A Cairo appeal court ordered on Tuesday deposed president Mohamed Morsi to stand trial on 16 February over allegations he collaborated with Hamas, Hezbollah and other organisations to commit terrorist acts in Egypt.
According to an earlier statement (...)
Cairo's prosecution ordered detained for 15 additional days Saturday pending investigations 174 Al-Azhar University students for alleged involvement in riots that took place on the Cairo campus 28, 29 and 30 December.
The arrested students are (...)
Alexandria Criminal Court postponed the trial against police officials charged with murdering January 25 Revolution protesters in Egypt's second largest city till Sunday.
The prosecution presented 21 more suspects in the case and requested new (...)
Egypt's government announced on Tuesday that the assets of 572 Muslim Brotherhood leaders had been frozen, according to the decisions of the newly formed committee tasked with examining the issue.
The committee has also decided putting 87 schools (...)
A Cairo Court for Urgent Matters banned on Monday demonstrations on university campuses without prior authorisation from university presidents, a judicial source told Ahram Online.
A lawyer for controversial television talk-show host Tawfiq Okasha (...)
At least one protester was killed in the city of Damietta in the northeast of the Delta region in clashes between pro-ousted president Mohamed Morsi protesters and security forces.
Another pro-Morsi protester was killed in Samalut , Meniya (...)
An investigation justice referred on Saturday morning ousted president Mohamed Morsi and 132 co-defendants to criminal court in the case of escaping from Wadi El-Natroun prison during the January uprising of 2011.
Morsi, members of the Palestinian (...)
Egyptian authorities transferred two senior aides of ousted president Mohamed Morsi to Al-Aqrab prison in southern Cairo on Saturday.
Morsi's aide for foreign relations, Essam El-Haddad, and former head of the presidential media office, Ayman Ali, (...)
A misdemeanour court on Tuesday postponed the trial of four Egyptian police officers accused of manslaughter in relation to the deaths of 37 detained protesters in August, who suffocated to death in a police van.
On 18 August, the interior ministry (...)
The Egyptian Court of Cassation overturned on Saturday the 37-year prison sentence given to business tycoon Ahmed Ezz in March on charges of profiteering and squandering public funds, ordering a retrial.
The court verdict came in response to an (...)
Activist Ahmed Maher, a co-founder of the April 6 Youth Movement, will remain in detention for four days pending investigations on charges related to violating a new protest law, despite an earlier order that he be released.
According to April 6, (...)
Prosecutors in Alexandria have ordered the release of Ahmed El-Hamrawy, head of the legal team representing 21 women and teenage girls who were given prison sentences for protest-related offences last week.
Fourteen women were sentenced to 11 years (...)
Prosecutors on Monday ordered the release of 23 activists who were detained a week ago for allegedly breaking a new law on demonstrating.
Twenty-four male protesters have been held in police custody since Tuesday following their arrest for (...)
Egypt's public prosecutor imposed a media ban Saturday on coverage of certain cases, including those involving espionage charges against deposed president Mohamed Morsi and the killing of Lieutenant Colonel Mohamed Mabrouk.
The ban also includes the (...)
Egypt's deposed president Mohamed Morsi will be allowed a visit by lawyers in prison, according to Muslim Brotherhood lawyer Hassan Saleh.
Saleh told Ahram Online that the public prosecutor has granted Morsi the visit, but stipulated that it should (...)
East Cairo prosecution head ordered on Saturday the release of 25 die-hard football fans after their detention for almost a month on charges of allegedly assaulting security forces.
The detainees were released without bail after paying compensation (...)
The presiding judge in the trial of deposed president Mohamed Morsi and co-defendants on charges of inciting violence and murder in December 2012 against opponents has temporarily suspended the first session for the second time in less than an hour (...)
Egypt's administrative court has ordered the annulment of a presidential decree appointing farmers' representative Mohamed Dagher to the 50-member constitution committee.
Dagher was appointed to replace farmers' syndicate leader Mohamed Abdel-Qader, (...)
Cairo's Nasr City prosecution ordered Saturday an autopsy conducted on a engineering student killed during Friday clashes, to ascertain the reason of his death.
Nineteen-year-old Belal Ali Saber was killed as a protest in support of ousted president (...)
Deadly clashes erupted between supporters and opponents of deposed president Mohamed Morsi in Ibn Sandr Square in the suburb of Zeitoun in western Cairo.
A security source told Ahram Online that three people were killed in the violence.
According to (...)
A member of a Muslim Brotherhood-led alliance has said that the Islamist group will not appeal a recent court verdict that banned the Brotherhood, but will instead appeal to a different court to overturn the ruling.
On 23 September the Cairo court (...)
Egyptian prosecution on Sunday ordered a 15-day detention period pending investigation for 24 additional suspects arrested in the Giza town of Kerdasa following a security crackdown launched since Thursday on the area, bringing the number of arrests (...)