Egypt’s parliament approved on Saturday El-Sisi’s presidential decree to extend the country’s state of emergency, that has been in effect for two years, for three more months on the grounds of fighting terrorism.

Egypt has sentenced seven Muslim Brotherhood members, including a business tycoon, to life in prison on charges of “harming the national economy” and funding a “terrorist” group.

Egyptian authorities have released Muna Mahmoud Ibrahim, known as Umm Zubeida, after detaining her for one year, rights activists said yesterday.

The State Security Emergency Court in Aswan on Sunday handed 25 Nubians conditional fines of up to EGP 50,000 over charges for organizing illegal protests in 2017, and acquitted seven Nubians, Al Masry Al Youm reports. The conditional fines ” would only be enforced if the defendants commit future crimes.”

Invasive physical examinations were conducted on two people swept up in the wide-reaching post-Ramses Station arrest campaign, according to rights lawyers, who said the procedures amounted to “torture and sexual violence.”

Twenty-six members of a grassroots campaign that opposed President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s nomination for the 2018 presidential election were sentenced to prison on Thursday.

Yehia Hussein Abdel Hady, the former spokesperson for the Civil Democratic Movement, was arrested by security forces from his home in the Cairo neighborhood of Medinet Nasr in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

Prime Minster Mostafa Madbouly ordered on Tuesday that all cases and crimes related to thuggery, terrorism, endangering the lives of others and places of worship should be looked into by the State Security Emergency Courts.

Police forces arrested writer Ibrahim al-Husseini on Sunday at his home in the Shubra al-Kheima district of Cairo, rights lawyer Mohamed Abdel Aziz told Mada Masr. Husseini has yet to appear in any prosecution office or police detention center.

Egypt’s Ministry of Interior announced on Saturday in an official statement, that two other members who were involved in the Minya attack were killed. The Minya attack, previously resulted in the death of seven Egyptian Coptic Christian citizens, in the south of Cairo, early November.