A Cairo criminal court sentenced a former honorary Italian consul to 15 years in jail in absentia on Tuesday for smuggling antiquities out of the country, a judicial source said.

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

Egypt’s Prosecutor General Hamada El-Saway has ordered an autopsy and investigation of the death of an Egyptian-American citizen who died in a prison hospital on Monday.

Egypt formed a new team to investigate the death of an Italian student who was tortured and murdered in Cairo in 2016, Egypt’s public prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday, Reuters reports.

The government has granted the public prosecutor greater powers to freeze the assets, funds and property of individuals and organizations included on terrorist lists, even if those resources were never used for so-called terrorist activity. The move was criticized by a judicial official at the Court of Appeals as providing …

Egyptian prosecutors released on Saturday evening seven suspects in a mob sexual harassment case of two young women in Egypt’s Mansoura last week, when video of a jeering crowd of men surrounding a girl on New Year’s Eve went viral and sparked outrage from women’s rights advocates.

Egypt’s Higher State Security Prosecution detained on Wednesday Egyptian Youtuber Shady Srour for 15 days pending an investigation over charges that the comedian had “cooperated” with the banned Muslim Brotherhood group and published “false news.”

Al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein has now been held in an Egyptian prison without charge for three years. Hussein, an Egyptian national, was arrested shortly after his arrival in Egypt on December 20, 2016, while on a personal visit.

An Egyptian human rights activist who was not seen or heard from for 10 days will appear before a local prosecutor, his wife said on Friday. The rights group he works for said it believes his arrest is the latest targeting of human rights workers by the regime.

Mohamed al-Qassas, the Strong Egypt Party’s deputy president, was ordered released from prison last week after spending 22 months in remand detention only to find his detention would continue on fresh charges in a new case three days later. Defense lawyers criticized the move as a cruel tactic by authorities …