Category Archives: egypt

25 November 2017: the Cairo Criminal Court sentenced to death seven terrorists of the Daesh-affiliated “Matrouh cell” on charges of beheading 21 Egyptian Copts working in Libya in February 2015. The court also sentenced 10 defendants to 25 years in ...

23 November 2017 : the Anti-Terror Quartet (ATQ) composed by Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Bahrain, added two entities and 11 individuals to its blacklist. The blacklist included the Doha-based International Union of Muslim Scholars, and the International Islamic ...

15 November 2017: a South Giza criminal court issued a preliminary death sentence against a man convicted of killing Coptic Orthodox priest Samaan Shehata in Cairo last October. The court has referred the case to the country’s Grand Mufti for a ...

14 November 2017: an Egyptian military court has referred the files of 14 defendants to the country’s top religious authority, the Grand Mufti, seeking his approval of their execution. The defendants have been convicted of violence and allegedly killing a ...

13 November 2017 :  the Egyptian Supreme Military Court of Appeals rejected the appeals filed by defendants in case number 45/2013, Partial Military Offences in North Sinai, attached to case number 411/2013, Military crimes in Ismailia. All 16 defendants are ...

7 November 2017:  the Court of Cassation cancelled the execution verdict of one defendant and the 10-year jail sentences of six others and ordered their retrial over forming a terrorist cell to carry out anti-government activities, official MENA news agency ...

25 October 2017: President Abdel Fattah El Sisi said Egypt is keen on adhering to human rights obligations. During a press conference with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, Sisi expressed his keenness on establishing a modern civil democratic state in ...

22 October 2017: an Egyptian criminal court, in a trial involving Islamists, confirmed the death sentences for 11 men and handed down life sentences to 14 others over charges including the attempted murder of policemen. The court ruling by Judge ...

22 October  2017: an Egyptian criminal court has confirmed death sentences for 11 men and handed down life sentences to 14 others over charges including attempted murder of policemen. The court ruling by Judge Mohammed Nagy Shehata — known for ...