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Egypt court upholds convictions against 3 prominent activists
Egypt's Court of Cassation upheld convictions and three-year prison sentences of three activists on Monday for violating the country's protest laws. Ahmed Maher, Ahmed Douma and Mohammed Adel were arrested for breaking a law that bans political ga (More) |
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Egypt authorities arrest 516 Muslim Brotherhood supporters
Security forces in Egypt arrested 516 supporters of the banned Muslim Brotherhood , Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim announced Monday. On Sunday, which marked the fourth anniversary of the 2011 uprising and the fall of Hosni Mubarak , supporters of (More) |
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Egypt court orders retrial for 152 Muslim Brotherhood supporters
An Egyptian court on Saturday ordered a retrial for 152 Muslim Brotherhood [party website; JURIST news archive] supporters sentenced in a mass trial last year. Thirty-seven were sentenced to death, and 115 others were sentenced to life imprisonment (More) |
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Egypt court aquits 26 men arrested in 'gay' raid
An Egyptian court on Monday acquitted 26 men arrested during a police raid of a bathhouse in search of gay men. The raid and ensuing trial were highly publicized, leading many of the charged men to hide their faces throughout the process. The charge (More) |
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UN SG condemns attack against French magazine employees
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday spoke out against the attack against the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo , expressing his shock and appall at at the actions of the terrorists who carried it out. The attack was perpetrated by m (More) |
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Egypt's highest court orders retrial for three Al Jazeera journalists
Egypt's Court of Cassation on Thursday, ordered a retrial for three Al Jazeera journalists jailed for falsifying news reports and associating with the Muslim Brotherhood . The three journalists are Peter Greste, Mohamed Fadel Fahmy and Baher Moham (More) |
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Egypt prosecutor refers 439 individuals to military tribunal over police deaths
Egypt's top prosecutor on Saturday referred 439 individuals to a military tribunal for the killing of three police officers last year. The group was composed of about 139 Islamists from the southern province of Minya and 300 from the Nile Delta Pro (More) |
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Egypt court sentences 188 to death
An Egyptian criminal court on Tuesday sentenced 188 Muslim Brotherhood [party website; JURIST news archive] supporters to death for an August 2013 attack on a police station in the governate of Giza, widely known as the "Kerdasa massacre." This inci (More) |
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Egypt court confirms dissolution of Islamist Istiqlal Party
A Cairo court on Saturday confirmed a decision dissolving the Islamist Istiqlal Party. The court also rejected an appeal [Daily News Egypt report] of the decision. The case was brought before the court after former State Security Court judge Amr Abd (More) |
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Egypt arrests leading Muslim Brotherhood negotiator
Egyptian authorities on Thursday arrested a top Muslim Brotherhood member who played a key role in negotiations between the group and the Egyptian government. A security official said the arrest of Mohammed Ali Bishr was linked to a call for demon (More) |
Bruno Hauptmann executed for kidnap, murder of Lindbergh baby
On April 3, 1936, Bruno Hauptmann was executed by electric chair for the kidnapping and murder of the Charles Lindbergh baby.
Read more about the trial of Bruno Hauptmann in JURIST's Famous Trials series.
