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Egypt Detains 2 Israelis For Assaulting 3 Hotel Workers In Taba: Report
The Egyptian prosecution office has ordered the detention of two Israeli citizens for assaulting three hotel workers in the Red Sea town of Taba, near the border with Israel, Egyptian security sources said on Sunday.
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Egyptian Businessman Gets Life In Jail For Protests Against President
An Egyptian military court on Sunday sentenced in absentia a Spain-based critic of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to life in prison over calls for anti-government protests, state media reported.
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Egypt Student Sentenced To 4 Years In Jail For "Spreading False News"
An Egyptian court Tuesday convicted a university student to four years in prison for "spreading false news", rights groups said, in a sentence Amnesty International labelled "outrageous".
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Egypt Frees Journalist After 4 Years In Prison
Mahmoud Hussein, a journalist for Qatar's Al Jazeera, arrived at his home in greater Cairo Saturday after four years in an Egyptian jail, an AFP journalist reported, amid thawing relations between the countries.
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Egypt Jails 5 Women Over TikTok Video That Violated "Society Values"
An Egyptian court Monday sentenced five female social media influencers to two years in jail on charges of violating public morals, a judicial source said.
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Instagrammer, Jailed For Climbing Pyramid In Egypt, Reveals Why He Did It
Instagram influencer Vitaly Zdorovetskiy has posted a video that shows him climbing a pyramid in Egypt - a stunt that earned him five days in jail.
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Egypt Jails US Traveller, Saying She Criticised The Government On Facebook
When Reem Mohamed Desouky arrived from Washington last month with her 13-year-old son, Egyptian authorities detained them at the airport, she said. They confiscated their phones and interrogated Desouky, holding the two for hours.
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"Nawaz Sharif Won't Meet Fate Of Egypt's Mohammad Morsi," Says Daughter
There is a serious threat to the life of jailed former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif due to lack of medical care, his daughter Maryam said Saturday as she vowed to not let his father meet the fate of ex-Egyptian President Mohammad Morsi.
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Mohamed Morsi Briefly Made History As Egypt's First Democratically Elected President
When Mohamed Morsi, a leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, broke out of jail during the final days of Hosni Mubarak's presidency in 2011, he little imagined that the following year he would be president and, another year on, behind bars again.
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25-Year-Old Woman Jailed For 3 Years In Egypt For "Harassing" Monkey
An Egyptian court has sentenced a 25-year-old woman to three years in prison for "sexually harassing" a monkey in the country's north, state daily Al-Ahram reported Friday.
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Egypt Court Sentences Woman Activist Who Slammed Sexual Harassment
An Egyptian court Saturday handed a two-year suspended jail sentence to a woman human rights activist arrested in May after posting a video criticising sexual harassment in Egypt, her lawyer said.
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Egypt Sentences 75 To Death Over Clashes, Journalist Gets 5 Years
An Egyptian court on Saturday upheld death sentences against 75 people, in one of the largest mass trials since the 2011 uprising, and gave a five-year jail term to an award-winning photojournalist.
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Egypt Sentences Ex-President Mohamed Mursi, 19 Others To Three Years In Jail For Insulting Judiciary
A Cairo criminal court sentenced former Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi and 19 others to three years in prison on Saturday, and fined him 2 million Egyptian pounds ($112,700) on charges of insulting the judiciary.
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Egypt Jails 14 For Homosexuality
An Egyptian court on Sunday sentenced 14 men convicted of being homosexuals to three years in jail each for "abnormal" sexual relations, a defence lawyer said.
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Egypt's Former President Mohamed Morsi Sentenced To Life In Espionage Trial
An Egyptian court today sentenced former Islamist president Mohamed Morsi to life in prison in an espionage trial in which six of his co-defendants were handed death penalties.
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Egypt Detains 2 Israelis For Assaulting 3 Hotel Workers In Taba: Report
The Egyptian prosecution office has ordered the detention of two Israeli citizens for assaulting three hotel workers in the Red Sea town of Taba, near the border with Israel, Egyptian security sources said on Sunday.
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Egyptian Businessman Gets Life In Jail For Protests Against President
An Egyptian military court on Sunday sentenced in absentia a Spain-based critic of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to life in prison over calls for anti-government protests, state media reported.
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Egypt Student Sentenced To 4 Years In Jail For "Spreading False News"
An Egyptian court Tuesday convicted a university student to four years in prison for "spreading false news", rights groups said, in a sentence Amnesty International labelled "outrageous".
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Egypt Frees Journalist After 4 Years In Prison
Mahmoud Hussein, a journalist for Qatar's Al Jazeera, arrived at his home in greater Cairo Saturday after four years in an Egyptian jail, an AFP journalist reported, amid thawing relations between the countries.
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Egypt Jails 5 Women Over TikTok Video That Violated "Society Values"
An Egyptian court Monday sentenced five female social media influencers to two years in jail on charges of violating public morals, a judicial source said.
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Instagrammer, Jailed For Climbing Pyramid In Egypt, Reveals Why He Did It
Instagram influencer Vitaly Zdorovetskiy has posted a video that shows him climbing a pyramid in Egypt - a stunt that earned him five days in jail.
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Egypt Jails US Traveller, Saying She Criticised The Government On Facebook
When Reem Mohamed Desouky arrived from Washington last month with her 13-year-old son, Egyptian authorities detained them at the airport, she said. They confiscated their phones and interrogated Desouky, holding the two for hours.
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"Nawaz Sharif Won't Meet Fate Of Egypt's Mohammad Morsi," Says Daughter
There is a serious threat to the life of jailed former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif due to lack of medical care, his daughter Maryam said Saturday as she vowed to not let his father meet the fate of ex-Egyptian President Mohammad Morsi.
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Mohamed Morsi Briefly Made History As Egypt's First Democratically Elected President
When Mohamed Morsi, a leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, broke out of jail during the final days of Hosni Mubarak's presidency in 2011, he little imagined that the following year he would be president and, another year on, behind bars again.
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25-Year-Old Woman Jailed For 3 Years In Egypt For "Harassing" Monkey
An Egyptian court has sentenced a 25-year-old woman to three years in prison for "sexually harassing" a monkey in the country's north, state daily Al-Ahram reported Friday.
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Egypt Court Sentences Woman Activist Who Slammed Sexual Harassment
An Egyptian court Saturday handed a two-year suspended jail sentence to a woman human rights activist arrested in May after posting a video criticising sexual harassment in Egypt, her lawyer said.
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Egypt Sentences 75 To Death Over Clashes, Journalist Gets 5 Years
An Egyptian court on Saturday upheld death sentences against 75 people, in one of the largest mass trials since the 2011 uprising, and gave a five-year jail term to an award-winning photojournalist.
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Egypt Sentences Ex-President Mohamed Mursi, 19 Others To Three Years In Jail For Insulting Judiciary
A Cairo criminal court sentenced former Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi and 19 others to three years in prison on Saturday, and fined him 2 million Egyptian pounds ($112,700) on charges of insulting the judiciary.
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Egypt Jails 14 For Homosexuality
An Egyptian court on Sunday sentenced 14 men convicted of being homosexuals to three years in jail each for "abnormal" sexual relations, a defence lawyer said.
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Egypt's Former President Mohamed Morsi Sentenced To Life In Espionage Trial
An Egyptian court today sentenced former Islamist president Mohamed Morsi to life in prison in an espionage trial in which six of his co-defendants were handed death penalties.
