Cairo Criminal Court

Trial of 20 elements of Daesh-affiliated

Cairo - Arab Today

The Cairo Criminal Court on Saturday postponed to March 28 the trial of 20 defendants of a Daesh-affiliated terror cell in Marsa Matrouh. The defendants face charges of joining military training camps of Daesh terrorist group in Libya and Syria in addition to beheading 21 Egyptian Christians working in Libya. The crime of slaughtering the Egyptian workers was filmed byRead more

Ezz held in remand in iron licenses case

Cairo - Arab Today

The Cairo Criminal Court on Tuesday ordered holding in custody businessman Ahmed Ezz and former head of the Industrial Development Authority Amr Asal over charges of squandering public funds to the value of 600 million pounds. The court ordered postponing the trial of the two defendants to April 4 in the case known in the media as the "Iron Licenses"Read more

Hazem Salah Abu Ismail, 5 others sentenced to 5 years in prison in Nasr City court case

Cairo - Arab Today

Cairo Criminal Court decided in Sunday's session to sentence the Salafist lawyer and preacher Hazem Salah Abu Ismail and five others to prison for five years in the case of besieging Nasr City court in December 2012. Eleven others were sentenced to prison for 10 years in absentia. The defendants are accused of threatening the members of the general prosecution,Read more

Court considers request to freeze State Council official funds Monday

Cairo - Arab Today

Cairo Criminal Court is set to consider on Monday a request by the prosecutor general to deny the State Council's Procurement General Manager, Gamal Eddin Mohamed el Labban, and two other suspects, access to their funds and property over bribery charges. El Labban is charged with getting a backhander from an owner of a private company and his wife. UponRead more

Retrial of Badie, MB leaders delayed to Jan 17

Cairo - Arab Today

The Cairo Criminal Court on Tuesday postponed to January 17 the re-trial of terrorist Muslim Brotherhood guide Mohamed Badie and 738 other leaders and members of the banned group over their involvement in the armed sit-in of Cairo's Rabaa Al Adawiya Square. They are accused of involvement in scheming a terror plot that aimed at vandalizing vital government facilities andRead more

Trial of 67 defendants in Barakat assassination

Cairo - Arab Today

The Cairo Criminal court on Saturday, under counselor Hassan Farid, delayed to January 14 the trial of 67 defendants of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood group on charges of assassinating prosecutor general Hisham Barakat. The postponement aimed at resuming hearing the testimonies of the witnesses and to summon a witness. Some 51 are detained pending investigation in the case while 16Read more

Retrial of police officer over killing activist Sabagh adjourned till Feb 19

Cairo - Arab Today

Cairo Criminal Court on Thursday adjourned until February 19 the retrial of police officer Yasseen Mohamed Hatem over the killing of activist Shaimaa el Sabagh. Sabagh, a leading member of the Socialist Popular Alliance Party, was shot dead during a peaceful rally on January 24, 2015 to commemorate the martyrs of the January 25 Revolution on its fourth anniversary nearRead more

Cairo court upholds decision to freeze Mubarak assets

Cairo - Arab Today

The Cairo Criminal Court upheld Thursday the Illicit Gains Authority’s decision to deny ex-president Hosni Mubarak and his family access to their assets. The court’s decision comes after it has rejected a petition submitted by one of Suzan Mubarak’s relatives to lift the ban on their assets. The court’s verdict to freeze assets of the ousted president’s family is basedRead more