Daughter of prominent imam Yousef Qaradawi was ready to go home after court ordered her release, but that hope was short-lived According to MEE , Egyptian prosecutors have levelled new charges against Ola al-Qaradawi, effectively [ More … ]
Dr Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first and only democratically elected president, died in a cage. In a glass box in a Cairo courtroom this past Monday, in visibly poor health, he stood up for the latest [ More … ]
The Egyptian North Cairo Criminal Court, Sunday, arrested Mohsen Qurani Abdel Razek, who turned out to be a lawyer defending one of the detainees during the 35th trial session of 215 people opposed to the military [ More … ]
An Egyptian court has sentenced former president Mohamed Morsi and 19 others to three years in prison on charges of insulting the judiciary. Morsi, democratically elected after Egypt’s 2011 revolution, was deposed following mass protests [ More … ]
BY: Yasin Aktay* It would be naive to expect that a structure, in which lies have become a common code of conduct among all the members, to tell the truth in courts today. Fortunately, judges and [ More … ]
Cairo Criminal Court on Saturday issued death sentences for 28 out of the 56 defendants accused of involvement in the 2015 assassination of former General Prosecutor Hesham Barakat. Preliminary death sentences were handed to 30 [ More … ]
A Tunisian court on Wednesday ordered the assets and property of the head of the opposition Free Patriotic Union, Slim Riahi, be frozen on suspicion of money laundering. A spokesman for the Public Prosecutor’s Office [ More … ]
Dozens of people protested in front of Ankara court as defendants arrive The first day of the trial of the main suspects in last year’s attempted coup in Turkey began Monday. There were heavy security [ More … ]
A Bahraini appeals court sentenced three people to death on Thursday over bombings that targeted police patrols in a majority-Shia village, the state-run news agency reported. Three people were sentenced to death by Bahraini courts [ More … ]
Jordan’s Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal to extradite Ahlam Al-Tamimi, who was placed on the FBI’s “Most Wanted Terrorist” list, as her family urged Jordan’s government to ensure Al-Tamimi’s safety. The court upheld [ More … ]
Dozens of foreign workers have reportedly been sentenced to flogging and jail in Saudi Arabia for unrest which erupted after wages went unpaid by the Binladin Group The Saudi Criminal Court in Makkah has sentenced [ More … ]
A court in Saudi Arabia handed down death sentences to 15 people Tuesday for accused of leaking details on the Saudi military and national security to Iran. Fifteen other suspects were sentenced to jail terms ranging [ More … ]
Egypt’s Court of Cassation has upheld the life sentence against Former Minister of Supply and Interior Trade Bassmen Ouda and 36 others, where they were accused of blocking the Cairo-Alexandria Agricultural Road, known as the [ More … ]
A Jordanian court on Wednesday rejected a request — for the fifth time — to release a prominent Islamist preacher on bail, according to a defense lawyer, reported Anadolu Agency. “The state security court has [ More … ]
– An Australian charged with 7 counts of supporting engagement in armed hostilities in Syria An Australian court on Tuesday convicted the first Australian to be charged with recruiting people to fight overseas since the start of [ More … ]
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