Members of the European parliament have expressed solidarity with the Egyptian-Palestinian politician Ramy Shaath and other human rights activists detained in Egypt and are calling for their release.

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.

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 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.

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 Supreme State Security Prosecution has ordered 15 fans of Al-Ahly Sports Club (known as Ultras Ahlawy) to be detained for 15 days pending investigations.

Egypt’s top prosecutor on Saturday ordered a criminal trial against the train conductor who forced two street vendors without tickets to jump off a moving train, leaving one of them dead and the other injured, Amr Adib reports.

Egypt’s Attorney General Hamada Al-Sawy ordered the release of a number of individuals who were arrested over the 20 September demonstrations, after their presence in the incidents was proven not intended.

Conditions inside Cairo’s notorious Tora Prison Complex are “adequate,” according to the findings of an inspection team assigned by the Public Prosecution.