A self-exiled Egyptian businessman whose allegations of corruption against President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and the country’s military sparked rare protests has been sentenced in absentia to five years in prison. Former military contractor Mohamed Ali was charged with tax evasion.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pushed Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry on a US citizen that Cairo has detained for six years. State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus noted that Pompeo pressed Shoukry Monday on “concerns over press freedom, human rights and Americans detained in Egypt, including Moustafa Kassem.”

The Egyptian authorities on Thursday executed three people who were convicted of terror- related charges, the Egyptian Coordination for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF) said yesterday.

Prominent Egyptian judge Mahmoud al-Khudairi has been released after serving six years in prison, his lawyer said on Thursday.

On 17 June of this year the first democratically elected president of Egypt, Mohamed Morsi, collapsed during a court hearing in Cairo and was later pronounced dead, following an apparent heart attack.

Egypt’s Tax Evasion Prosecution has referred fugitive contractor Mohamed Ali, known for his of towards President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s regime, to urgent criminal trial on charges of tax evasion.

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.

Egypt security services imprisoned three journalists for 15 days on Wednesday for “spreading false news”. The Egyptian Supreme State Security Prosecution (SSSP) decision took place on the same day that Amnesty International published a report saying that the prosecution service had built a “parallel justice system” in Egypt, using anti-terror legislation …

A military court on Sunday handed the leading terrorist Hisham Al-Ashmawi a death sentence over his involvement in the Al-Farafra Oasis shootout case, according to a military statement.

A new report published by Amnesty International exposes how Egypt’s Supreme State Security Prosecution (SSSP) is routinely misusing counter-terror legislation to prosecute thousands of peaceful critics and suspend guarantees to fair trial.