Prosecutors started investigating reports from the Interior Ministry on Saturday against 54 protesters arrested in clashes with police in Tahrir Square and Alexandria.
Saturday's clashes resulted in two deaths and 1114 injuries, according to the (...)
Attorney General Abdel Meguid Mahmoud has referred 18 people to an expedited criminal court on various charges relating to an attack on Coptic protesters outside the Egyptian Radio and Television Union building on the Maspero Corniche on Saturday 14 (...)
Pope Shenouda's secretary, Bishop Armia, said on Thursday that the Coptic Church had nothing to do with the disappearance of Kamilia Shehata, the Coptic woman who certain Islamic groups claimed was behing held against her will inside a (...)
Interior Minister Mansour al-Essawy said the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has agreed to reserve 50,000 conscripts for the Ministry of Interior to help offset the prevailing security shortage.
“There are 290,000 conscripts reserved for the (...)
The South Cairo Criminal Court on Tuesday witnessed clashes between the families of several people killed during the 25 January revolution and the police officers accused in the case.
It was the first hearing for 13 officers tried for allegedly (...)
Coptic Pope Shenouda III denied media reports that he had discussed an initiative of Mohamed Badie, Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, to hold meetings with Copts for the group to answer any queries and reassure them if they had any (...)
Firefighters on Tuesday succeeded in extinguishing the blaze that erupted at 5 PM in the communications department on the top floor of the Interior Ministry building, creating a huge cloud of smoke over downtown Cairo.
They are currently evaluating (...)
Interior Minister Mansour al-Essawy on Sunday appointed Hamed Abdallah as the first director of the National Security Department, which was formed to substitute the notorious State Security Investigation Bureau.
Abdallah graduated from the Police (...)
Protesters injured in the city of Suez during the 25 January revolution told prosecutors that the police had randomly fired at them even though they had raised their hands to demonstrate they were peaceful and unarmed.
They also said a police (...)
Following the Alexandria terrorist attack on New Year's Eve, Egypt's Interior Ministry on Wednesday intensified security measures in downtown Cairo's main streets and squares.
All abandoned cars left parked in the street have been removed in the (...)
An Egyptian court on Monday ordered Cairo University President Dr. Hosam Kamel to resign his position as university head. It also sentenced him in absentia to three months of prison confinement and a fine of LE200 in a lawsuit raised by Cairo (...)
Twenty-five individuals, including eight policemen, were injured Monday's morning when supporters of an independent parliamentary run-off candidate protested the defeat of their nominee.
Security detained 25 persons following the confrontation, (...)
Attorney-General Abdel Meguid Mahmoud will challenge a verdict issued by Egypt's Court of Cassation that reduced a death sentence delivered by a lower court against Egyptian business tycoon Hisham Talaat Mostafa and his accomplice for the 2008 (...)
In the event that the Court of Cassation accepts the appeal of Egyptian business mogul Hisham Talaat Moustafa and his alleged accomplice Mohsen al-Sokkary, both will be temporarily released, according to judicial sources. The appeal challenges a (...)
The retrial of Egyptian business tycoon Hisham Talaat Mustafa and former State Security officer Mohsen al-Sokkari for the alleged murder of Lebanese pop singer Suzanne Tamim has been postponed until next week.
Tamim was brutally murdered in Dubai in (...)
The Manshiyet Nasser Misdemeanor Court today acquitted the deputy governor of Cairo, Mahmoud Yassin al-Sayyed, on charges of negligent homicide of 119 people and injuring 55 others--all victims of a rockslide in Duweiqa, east of Cairo.
The court (...)
Maadi prosecutors are scheduled to examine a lawsuit raised by Cairo University pharmacy professor Safinaz Ibrahim against Cairo University President Hossam Kamel on 31 October.
Kamel is accused of failing to carry out a court order overturning his (...)
Egyptian courts will have a busy day Tuesday, with verdicts being handed down in four legal cases that have been closely followed by the local media and public.
Initial court hearings into the case of Mohsen Shaalan, deputy minister of culture and (...)
Tarek Ahmed, the 24-year-old computer expert that hacked into Youm al-Sabea newspaper's website earlier this week, has been arrested and detained for four days pending investigation.
Ahmed is charged with denigrating religion, disturbing public (...)
The Giza Criminal Court sentenced Mahmoud Esawy to death on Wednesday for the second time after hearing his appeal in the double-murder case in which he is accused of killing Heba el-Aqad--daughter of well-known Moroccan pop singer Laila (...)
Public prosecutors for Cairo's downtown district resumed investigations on Monday into events following last week's 6 April protests in the area, staged to demand constitutional reform and social justice.
Public Prosecutor Mamdouh Waheed listened to (...)
The South Cairo Prosecution began investigating a complaint submitted by Wafd Party President Mahmoud Abaza, in which the latter accused independent daily Al-Masry Al-Youm of slander and libel.
Abaza filed the complaint against both the Arabic (...)
The Misdemeanor Appeals Court of Sayeda Zeinab upheld on Monday a libel verdict against two editors at Al-Balagh newspaper who were accused of falsifying news of a gay prostitution ring involving three Egyptian actors. The trial lasted three (...)
The South Cairo Civil Court yesterday resumed proceedings over the lawsuit raised by Edouard Empain, grandson of Baron Empain, who is claiming rights to his grandfather's property, the Baron's Palace in Heliopolis, after it fell under the control of (...)
"I'm the only legitimate heir to my grandfather's property," said Edouard Empain, grandson of Belgian millionaire Baron Empain, who built his famous orientally-themed palace in Cairo's eastern Heliopolis district in 1911.
In a bid to claim his (...)