In testimony to prosecutors, security personnel employed at Cairo's Mahmoud Khalil Museum--from which a Vincent Van Gogh painting was stolen last month--said that museum management had ignored repeated requests for the upgrade of the museum's (...)
Ahmed al-Rayan, mastermind of a notorious pyramid scheme that cost thousands of Egyptians their life's savings in the 1980s, was released on Tuesday after spending 21 years in prison.
Al-Rayan, convicted on fraud charges in 1989, reportedly exited (...)
The Supreme Constitutional Court on Wednesday overturned an earlier verdict issued in May by the Supreme Administrative Court that obliged the Coptic Church to allow Coptic divorcees to remarry.
Voicing strong opposition to the decision, Coptic Pope (...)
Results of a laboratory analysis by the Chemistry Authority have shown that the dyes used in Egypt to stamp meat contain methyl alcohol, which is toxic to humans and banned worldwide, says a report filed by Cairo's Veterinary Medicine Directorate (...)
Shubra el-Kheima pharmacist Haitham Ahmed is accusing a policeman of stealing LE15,000 from him. "The man from the police station forced his way in and demanded to inspect my pharmacy," said Ahmed. "When I told him the law says he must have an (...)
A misdemeanor court in Heliopolis has sentenced businesswoman Hoda Abdel Moneim, known as the "Iron Lady," to three years in prison for stealing LE27,000. Abdel Moneim was acquitted on 8 other criminal charges.
Meanwhile, the Criminal Court of Cairo (...)
Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) on Sunday ruled that female judges had the right to be appointed to the State Council.
It further ruled that the council's general assembly--which had earlier voted to ban the appointment of female (...)
Samir el-Badawi, head of the Administrative Prosecution, criticized what he described as "moving backwards" on the issue of the appointment of women as judges.
"Women have reached the highest ranks in the Administrative Prosecution, headed it twice, (...)