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Cassation court upholds prison sentences to 15 defendants over Suez violence
Date: 2016-12-19 15:36:07 GMT - Egypt - Justice - SN:57 - ID:6178813
CAIRO, Dec 19 (MENA) - The Court of Cassation sentenced 15 defendants to three years of rigorous imprisonment over accusations of committing violent acts and riots in the vicinity of Masjid Hamza in Suez. Earlier, the public prosecution has ....
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Cassation court to consider 25 challenges in Port Said massacre
Date: 2016-12-19 13:08:10 GMT - Egypt - Justice - SN:36 - ID:6177721
CAIRO, Dec 19 (MENA) - The Cassation Court decided on Monday to set February 20 as a date for pronouncing the verdict into 52 appeals filed by 52 defendants accused of being responsible for the Port Said massacre. Some 72 people were killed and ....
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Court considers request to impound assets of human organ trafficking cell members
Date: 2016-12-18 14:13:04 GMT - Egypt - Justice - SN:43 - ID:6171201
CAIRO, Dec 18 (MENA) - The Cairo Criminal Court has set Monday session to look into a request by the public prosecution to freeze the assets of 25 people - including eight professors, two doctors, nurses and agents - accused of forming an ....
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Court accepts novelist's appeal on imprisonment verdict
Date: 2016-12-18 12:12:33 GMT - Egypt - Justice - SN:33 - ID:6170257
CAIRO, Dec 18 (MENA) - The Misdemeanor Court accepted on Sunday an appeal filed by journalist and novelist Ahmed Nagy against his two-year prison verdict. The court set January 1 as a date to consider Nagy's trial in the case of publishing and ....
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4 policemen in custody over torture charges
Date: 2016-12-18 07:06:17 GMT - Egypt - Justice - SN:6 - ID:6168737
CAIRO, Dec 18 (MENA) - West Cairo General Attorney Abdel Rahman Shetla decided on Sunday to remand in custody one officer and three non-commissioned officers for four days pending investigations over torture charges. The defendants are accused of ....
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Prosecutor General orders to hand over remains victims of crashed EgyptAir flight to their families
Date: 2016-12-17 19:49:06 GMT - Egypt - Justice - SN:72 - ID:6167313
CAIRO, Dec 17 (MENA) – Prosecutor General Nabil Ahmed Sadek assigned Supreme State Security Prosecution to hand over the remains of the Egyptian passengers of the crashed EgyptAir flight MS804 to their families in Egypt and to coordinate with ....
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SCC 'categorically' denies issue of ruling on Tiran, Sanafir islands
Date: 2016-12-17 14:09:53 GMT - Egypt - Justice - SN:50 - ID:6165805
CAIRO, Dec 17 (MENA) - The Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) categorically denied the reports circulated on some news websites on the issue of a ruling on litigation with regard to handing over Tiran and Sanafir islands to Saudi Arabia. Such ....
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Swiss attorney general in Egypt for key talks
Date: 2016-12-17 10:58:35 GMT - Egypt - Justice - SN:36 - ID:6164821
CAIRO, Dec 17 (MENA) – A Swiss team, under Attorney General Michael Lauber, arrived in Cairo on Saturday for important talks with Egyptian officials on a host of issues of mutual concern. Lauber will hold later in the day a press conference on ....
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Court freezes funds of CEWLA chairwoman
Date: 2016-12-14 14:21:27 GMT - Egypt - Justice - SN:48 - ID:6148465
CAIRO, Dec 14 (MENA) - Cairo Criminal Court ordered on Wednesday preventing Azza Suliman, the chairwoman of the Center for Egyptian Women Legal Assistance (CEWLA), from disposing of her property and possessions. Suliman is currently standing ....
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Court cancels IGA decision over Anas el Fekky
Date: 2016-12-14 13:16:51 GMT - Egypt - Justice - SN:41 - ID:6147873
CAIRO, Dec 14 (MENA) - Cairo Criminal Court annulled on Wednesday a decision issued by the Illicit Gain Authority (IGA) to prevent former information minister Anas El Fekky, as well as his wife and children from disposing of their property and ....