Tag: Egyptian news
Mubaraks granted embezzlement retrial
Egypt's Court of Cassation has ordered the retrial of former president Hosni Mubarak, who was convicted last year of embezzling over 125 million Egyptian...
Sleeping residents crushed as “fragile” building tumbles
As many as twenty residents may have perished when building in Cairo collapsed overnight on Monday, according to emergency services.
Countless buildings in the teeming...
Pyramid raiders handed five-year jail terms
Six locals and three Germans were sentenced to five years jail this week for stealing artefacts from Cairo’s Great Pyramid.
The Germans, who were sentenced...
Alleged Israeli informants’ execution videotaped
An Egyptian jihadist group has released a video showing the execution of four men accused of spying for the army and for Israel's Mossad...
20 years jail for Muslim Brotherhood leader and cleric
An Egyptian court has sentenced a leader of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood and an Islamist cleric to 20 years in prison for attempting to...
Rights group protests Rabaah massacre witness arrest
A New York-based rights group is protesting the detention of a key witness in its investigations into last summer’s mass killings in Cairo’s Rabaah...
