The Port Said Criminal Court, convened inside Cairo's police academy for security reasons, postponed until 18 December the retrial of 11 die-hard football fans from Al-Masry club convicted of premeditated murder.
The postponement, announced on (...)
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.
The release (...)
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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Egypt's State Commissioners Authority, a body that advises the government on legal issues, recommended on Monday the dissolution of the Freedom and Justice party (FJP) - the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The authority's report said that (...)
Most of those killed during Sunday's clashes in Cairo and other governorates where shot by live ammunition, said Hisham Abdel-Hamid, spokesman for the Forensic Medicine Department.
Abdel-Hamid told Ahram Online on Monday that Zeinhom morgue had (...)
Egypt's General Prosecution has requested that Interpol arrest Mahmoud Ezzat, the Muslim Brotherhood's Deputy Supreme Guide, who left Egypt weeks ago.
A judicial source at the International Cooperation Office said Interpol would arrest Ezzat (...)
Egypt's health ministry announced on Friday afternoon that one pro-Morsi protester has been killed in clashes between supporters and opponents of the deposed president in Manial in central Cairo.
Ministry spokesman Mohamed Khatib told Ahram Online (...)
The National Administrative Court overturned an appeal filed against the renationalisation of the Tanta Flax and Oil Company on Saturday.
The court had ruled against the privatisation of the company in September 2011.
The company was privatised in (...)
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 (...)
Ismailia Criminal Court postponed Saturday the retrial of 11 defendants accused in the “Port Said massacre” case to 4 October.
The court session was adjourned due to the absence of the defendants.
The 11 defendants, who were given sentences ranging (...)
A Cairo court ordered on Tuesday Al-Jazeera Mubasher Misr be taken off air. The administrative court ruling also banned Al-Yarmouk, Al-Quds and Ahrar 25, regarded as channels linked to Islamists, off the Egyptian airwaves.
Al-Jazeera Egyptian (...)
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 (...)
Late on Sunday, Egypt's prosecutor-general ordered the referral of cases against deposed president Mohamed Morsi and 14 other defendants to criminal court, concerning their alleged responsibility for clashes that took place last December in front of (...)
The head of Al-Azbakia prosecution, Mohamed Hatta, ordered on Sunday evening that Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie be detained for 15 more days, pending investigations into charges of inciting violence against security and the raiding (...)
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 (...)
Egyptian prosecutors on Monday charged leading Muslim Brotherhood figure Khairat El-Shater and Islamist preacher Safwat Hegazi with inciting violence against protesters in July.
El-Shater, the group's second-in-command, was arrested with his brother (...)