Egypt’s jailed ex-president Hosni Mubarak could be released early after serving two-thirds of a corruption sentence and seeing murder charges dropped, his lawyer said on Sunday. An Egyptian court on Saturday dismissed the murder charge against Mubarak over the deaths … read more
The Metro Authority announced on Sunday “indefinitely” closing one of the main stations leading to downtown Cairo upon the request of security authorities. Ahmed Abdel Hady, Metro Authority Spokesman, told state-run news agency MENA that the trains of the metro’s … read more
Dozens of students protested on Sunday a court ruling dropping charges against Egypt’s toppled President Hosni Mubarak, over complicity in the killing of protesters, in universities nationwide. Students staged protests at the Universities of Cairo, Alexandria, Zagazig, al-Azhar, Tanta and … read more
Fourteen people were killed when a minivan and a truck crashed into each other late on Saturday in the southern Egyptian province of Minya, medical and security sources said. Egypt has one of the world’s highest rates of road and railway accidents, … read more
Hours after the government threatened to use live ammunition to deter Islamist demonstrations, a criminal court dropped charges against president Hosni Mubarak of killing demonstrators during the 25 January revolution. The dropping of charges, which came after the recent acquittal … read more
One protester was killed, and eight others were injured Saturday evening in clashes with police forces in Abdel Moniem Riad square in downtown Cairo, Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, media consultant for the minister of health said. Nearly a thousand people rallied … read more
Egypt’s top prosecutor announced on Saturday he will challenge the Cairo Criminal Court’s decision to drop the case against former President Hosni Mubarak over the charge of complicity in killing protesters. The court also acquitted on Saturday Mubarak’s Interior Minister … read more
Mubarak era interior minister and his top aides were all found not guilty in killing protesters in the January 2011 revolution. Mubarak has been acquitted from charges of corruption involving selling natural gas to Israel below market prices in cooperation … read more
An Egyptian court is to deliver today its verdict in the murder retrial of former president Hosni Mubarak, almost four years after he was overthrown in a popular uprising. Mubarak, 86, is accused along with seven of his former police … read more
Despite fears of wide-scale clashes today between protesters and police, the day passed largely in the usual manner as other Fridays, which regularly witness protests by Egypt’s Islamist opposition. The ultra-conservative Salafi Front, had called on people to take to the … read more