AnEgyptiancourtonSaturdayupheldlifesentenceagainsttheoustedpresidentMohamedMorsioverchargesofspyingforQatar,State-runNileTVreported.LifesentenceinEgyptis25years
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U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson left Qatar on Thursday after a tour of Gulf Arab countries aimed at easing the worst regional dispute in years, saying he made proposals that would help in resolving the month-long crisis.
AnEgyptiancourtonTuesdaysentenced12membersoftheoutlawedMuslimBrotherhoodgrouptodeathoverbreakingintoapolicestation,officialnewsagencyMENAreported.Thedefendantsw
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An Egyptian court has added former football star Mohamed Aboutrika to the authorities' terror list, his lawyer said Tuesday (Jan 17), based on suspicions he financed the banned Muslim Brotherhood.
The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (IS) militant group claimed responsibility on Tuesday (Dec 13) for a bomb attack on a Cairo church that killed 25 people, the first claim for one of the worst attacks on the Coptic Christian community in recent memory.
Membership of the Muslim Brotherhood should be considered as "a possible indicator of extremism," but the group will not be banned altogether in Britain, British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Thursday.
The Egyptian prosecution referred Saturday 53 members and loyalists of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group to military trial over the murder of a police officer earlier this year, official MENA news agency reported.
The assassination of Egypt's top prosecutor Hesham Barakat in a car bomb on Monday is meant by extremists to intimidate the country's court system that is currently reviewing hundreds of cases and holding mass trials for self-proclaimed Islamists and members and loyalists of the now-outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group.
An Egyptian court on Tuesday confirmed the death sentence against ousted President Mohamed Morsi over mass jailbreak during the 2011 political turmoil.
Egypt's Court of Cassation, the country's highest judicial authority, ordered on Thursday retrial of former long-time President Hosni Mubarak over killing of protesters in the 2011 uprising that ended up with his ouster.
A military court in Egypt's Suez province sentenced on Thursday 15 supporters of the currently-blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood group to 25 years in prison and two others to 10 years over inciting violence in late 2013, a few months after the ouster of former Islamist President Mohamed Morsi in mid-2013, official MENA news agency reported.
Egyptian courts handed on Wednesday 126 citizens various sentences, acquitted 13 and released 68 over violence and terrorism charges.
An Egyptian Court on Tuesday sentenced former Islamist President Mohammed Morsi to 20 years in prison over ordering the arrest and torture of protesters in 2012.
The lingering problems in relations between Turkey and Egypt added yet another trouble in ties, this time over TV networks broadcasting online to Arab nation via Turkey.
An Egyptian court on Thursday accepted an appeal against the sentence handed to three jailed Al- Jazeera journalists and a retrial will be scheduled, Ahram Online reported.