An Egyptian court upheld a ruling on Sunday banning teaching staff at Cairo University from wearing a face veil while holding lectures.

The Egyptian authorities excluded a number of renowned Islamic publishing houses from the 51st edition of the Cairo International Book Fair, which opened its doors to the public on Thursday.

Earlier in the day, Turkish state Anadolu news agency reported that Egyptian police raided its office in Cairo on Tuesday evening and arrested four of its employees.

Prosecutor General Hamada El-Sawy decided, Thursday to release defendants of Turkish Anadolu agency case, who were arrested on Wednesday.

Egypt arrested four employees of Turkish state news agency Anadolu on Wednesday after a raid on its Cairo office at a time of rising tensions between the regional rivals, the agency said.

The Cairo Criminal Court sentenced on Saturday two defendants in case Number 846 of 2015, known as the “Al-Warraq Cell” to 15 years in prison for each defendant.

An incident outside the Egyptian prime minister’s residence on Monday has been linked to a suspected car bombing plot against the senior politician, Cairo has claimed.

The Cairo Criminal Court sentenced seven defendants to death by hanging on Monday over their involvement in the killing of 8 police officers in 2016 in a case dubbed by the media the “Helwan microbus cell.”

An Egyptian prosecutor ordered on Monday for Coptic rights activist Ramy Kamel to be held under provisional detention on charges of joining a terrorist organisation and spreading false news, his lawyer said.

Egypt’s interior ministry has organised a tour of its most infamous prison, just days after a panel of United Nations experts warned that thousands of prisoners were at risk of dying in Egyptian jails.