The State Council's Administrative Court on Tuesday rejected a lawsuit calling for a referendum to grant amnesty to former President Hosni Mubarak and his family in exchange for surrendering their money.
In its decision, the court said there is no (...)
Egypt's Emergency State Security Court on Monday adjourned the trial of a Jordanian citizen accused of spying for Israel after his defense team requested more time to review material and provide documents related to the case. The trial is slated to (...)
Egypt's administrative court delivered a verdict on Saturday that enables detained blogger Alaa Abd El Fattah to vote in the current parliamentary elections, which kicked off on 28 November.
Abd El Fattah was detained in October for alleged (...)
Security personnel have the right to defend themselves against attacks on police stations, which is considered a public institution, said the Cairo Criminal Court.
This rationale came with Tuesday's court verdict, which acquitted a policeman accused (...)
An administrative court has turned down a lawsuit requesting the annulment of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces' (SCAF) amendments to the law on parliamentary elections.
Laws issued by the ruling military council are of a legislative nature (...)
The Cairo Court of Appeal on Thursday accepted a memo submitted by two judges on behalf of the Ministry of Justice disclosing the "secret" bank accounts of 75 Egyptian and foreign civil society organizations, as well as 40 individuals.
The memo said (...)
A lawyer has filed a lawsuit demanding that former President Hosni Mubarak be denied various privileges while in detention, including visits and telephone calls, and that he be moved from his current accommodation at a Cairo medical center to a (...)
The Administrative Court has postponed the case of Egyptian expats who were supposed to vote in upcoming parliamentary elections to Tuesday.
A number of Egyptian expats filed a complaint against the head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (...)
The Supreme Administrative Court on Monday approved applications to form the Jama'a al-Islamiya's Building and Development Party and the New Ghad Party, which is founded by prominent political activist Ayman Nour.
This new provision supersedes a (...)
The High Administrative Court will convene on 10 October to discuss a challenge submitted by Jama'a al-Islamiya, demanding that it be allowed to form its own political party.
The Islamist group is challenging the decision of the Political Parties (...)
More than two hours of video clips and pictures were shown by prosecution lawyers in the ‘Battle of the Camel' trial on Monday.
The material was intended to support the prosecution case against those accused of organizing violent attacks on (...)
Further security reinforcements were dispatched to North Sinai on Saturday morning, said security sources on Saturday.
The sources said that the armed forces imposed tight security measures in the areas of Nakhl, Nuweiba, Arish, Rafah and Sheikh (...)
Giza Criminal Court on Wednesday sentenced Mahmoud Suweilam, the Arab Contractors bus driver who shot colleagues on board the company's bus, to death. The shooting had resulted in six deaths and six injuries.
Suweilam was driving company employees (...)
An Egyptian court decided on Sunday to defer a lawsuit seeking to strip Egyptian nationality from Mohamed ElBaradei, former International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director and presidential hopeful, and Gamal Mubarak, the detained son of Egypt's (...)
Attorney General Abdel Meguid Mahmoud referred 48 suspects connected with the sectarian violence that occurred in Imbaba in early May to the State Security Supreme Court.
They are charged with murder, attempted murder, endangering public security, (...)
The Administrative Judicial Court on Sunday ordered the withdrawal of Egyptian nationality from Morris Sadek, a Coptic Christian lawyer living in the United States, and banned him from entering the country.
The action was taken against Sadek for a (...)
An Egyptian citizen has filed a lawsuit with the Administrative Court to exclude former members of the disbanded Parliament from running in upcoming elections.
The petition is directed to the head of Egypt's ruling Supreme Council of the Armed (...)
Minister of State for Antiquities Zahi Hawass has been sentenced to one year of hard labor and a LE1000 fine for failing to fulfill a court ruling over a land dispute. He has also been relieved of his duties as minister.
The sentence was issued by (...)
Alaa Mubarak, son of deposed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak owns LE49,535,000 worth of shares in Palm Hills Urban Development Company, in which former Housing Minister Ahmed al-Maghrabi owns a stake, said Khaled Ali, the director of the Egyptian (...)
The Administrative Judicial Court will issue its verdict on 16 April on the annullment of the Toshka land contract signed by Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal.
The contract relates to 100,000 acres of land in the southern Egyptian Toshka region, (...)
Some 2000 judges have threatened not to participate in the supervision of the 19 March constitutional referendum, citing procedural irregularities in the selection of judges.
The announcement comes as the Supreme Judicial Committee supervising the (...)
The judicial committee supervising the referendum on the new constitutional amendments, slated for 19 March, held its first meeting on Sunday at the State Council.
“According to recently proposed constitutional amendments and the law on political (...)
Voters will be able to vote by showing their identification cards on voting day, said an Interior Ministry statement on Thursday.
“It has been decided that the participation and voting of citizens on the constitutional amendments referendum and the (...)
Ninety-six Palestinians held in Egypt's maximum-security Al-Aqrab prison have declared a hunger strike.
Prisoners claim they were jailed without justification and demand they be released immediately.
“Some of them obtained court release orders after (...)
An Egyptian court has licensed a moderate Islamic political party, Al-Wasat Al-Jadid, whose application for legal status was denied by the former government.
Al-Wasat was founded in 1996 when a faction broke away from the Muslim Brotherhood to form (...)