The Supreme State Security Criminal Court sentenced an Al-Azhar professor to 15 years in prison and a fine of LE500,000, while sentencing five others to life in prison with a LE500,000 fine each, on charges of espionage for Iran.

Lawyer Ziad al-Uleimi was walking to his car in the Cairo residential suburb of Maadi in the early hours of June 25 when he was abducted. Witnesses say the former member of parliament was taken by National Security officers. Uleimi resurfaced hours later at the State Security offices, where he had …

Egyptian security services banned a memorial service in Cairo on Wednesday for Laila Marzouk, the mother of an Egyptian whose death and torture at the hands of Egyptian police was one of the main triggers of the 2011 revolution.

Egypt’s plans for a new capital city have been stalled by a lack of funding and a shortage of manual labour, leading to doubts that it will be able to serve as the seat of government by 2020 as planned.

The Cairo Criminal Court sentenced two defendants to death by hanging, two others to life imprisonment, four others to 10 years in prison and two others to three years in prison over a terrorist attack in Helwan on a Christian church and store that left 10 people dead.

An Egyptian court has sentenced two former monks to death for killing an abbot in a desert monastery north of Cairo last year.

The Cairo Criminal Court referred two defendants on Tuesday to the Grand Mufti seeking his opinion on a preliminary death sentence for them over their alleged participation in the Helwan Church attack in December 2017.

Cairo’s Administrative Court deferred on Sunday the consideration into a lawsuit filed by an editor-in-chief whose media website was blocked and fined by the Supreme Media Council (SMC) last week over alleged violations. The court postponed the lawsuit until 26 May.

Two policemen were killed and two others were wounded in a shooting attack on a security patrol at dawn early on Sunday, near El Nozha Police Station, Cairo, the ministry of interior said in a statement on Sunday. 

The 6th of October Misdemeanors Court on Monday sentenced media hosts Wael al-Ebrashy and Mohamed al-Ghaiti to six months in prison and LE2,000 fine each for influencing witnesses investigations into a murder by a judge in Nasr City.