A row has been triggered this week in Egypt after a senior tax authority official said that the government imposes an income tax on drug trafficking, arms trade and prostitution if law violators have been arrested.

A gang rape allegation at a luxury hotel in Egypt stemming from a prominent social media account has triggered a new #MeToo wave in the deeply conservative country.

Egypt’s Interior Ministry said on Monday that four “wanted criminals” were killed after an exchange of fire in al-Manzala city, Dakahlia Governorate, during a raid on a home that authorities have described as a “drug trafficking hotbed.”

Eight men were executed yesterday in Egypt in what is thought to be the first death sentences carried out in the country so far in 2020. The defendants were among 17 men who had been sentenced to death in a military court in May 2019 and accused of attacking three …

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.”

A criminal was shot dead during a shootout with police forces in Ismailia, as part of a crackdown on criminal outposts and other high-risk elements throughout the Suez Canal cities.

Italian authorities arrested three people suspected of raping and torturing migrants in a detention centre in north-west Libya on Monday, according to the Italian news agency AKI.

Egyptian security authorities have executed five persons from the same family after they were convicted of abducting and killing a four-year-old child.

Member of Parliament, Mamdouh Husseiny, called for toughening the penalty for human organ traffickers to the death sentence. The current maximum penalty for human trafficking is life imprisonment for aggravated circumstances.

The Interior Ministry announced the killing of two criminals in an exchange of fire with security forces in Daqahlia on Wednesday.