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Member of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), lawyer Hassan Salah, has been referred to criminal court Saturday accused of insulting the High Constitutional Court (HCC).The General Prosecution added Salah to the case already ongoing in which two other Brotherhood lawyers are facing the same accusation.The three face accusation based on claims they made that the HCC had

Egypt's Emergency State Security Criminal Court has adjourned Saturday a court hearing in the "Zeitoun cell" case to 17 June to complete pleadings.Twenty-five are accused of adopting an armed jihadist ideology and committing an armed robbery at a jeweller's shop in Cairo's district of Zeitoun in 2008.Four Copts were killed and two others injured in the robbery.  The trial was halted in March

ReutersEgyptian police angered by the kidnapping of seven colleagues by Islamist gunmen kept a crossing into the Gaza Strip closed again on Saturday, stranding hundreds of Palestinian travellers, witnesses said.The protest began Friday when police strung barbed wire across the Rafah border post and chained up the gates, local residents said, a day after the abductions."We will not open the

Thousands of protesters converged on Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday to join a planned rally in solidarity with the recently-launched "Rebel" campaign, which aims at "withdrawing confidence" from Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and bringing about early presidential elections.Hundreds of marchers coming from Sayyeda Zeinab Mosque and Mostafa Mahmoud Mosque arrived in the square, before hundreds

Many residents of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula believe that the kidnapping of seven Egyptian security personnel near the city of Al-Arish on Thursday was "retaliation" by Bedouin tribesmen for heavy-handed security policies adopted by the interior ministry.On Thursday morning, seven Egyptian security personnel – from both the army and police – were kidnapped by an unknown group in North

The Egyptian Judges Club will hold a conference with the International Judges Union on Monday to discuss Egypt's ongoing judicial crisis and alleged violations of Egypt's judiciary, a judicial source has told Ahram Online.Heads of judicial authorities and clubs, judges, lawyers and legal experts, along with a number of media and public figures, are expected to attend the conference.Earlier on

Operations at Egypt’s North Cairo Electricity Distribution Company (NCEDC) have been on hold for the fifth day in row due to a sit-in by workers demanding the release of 17 of their colleagues who are currently under arrest.The workers are threatening to escalate their protest by cutting off electricity to districts of Cairo supplied by the state-run company, protesting worker Ahmed Adel

Ma'an News AgencyThree young Bedouin children sustained serious injuries when a landmine exploded Thursday morning in Sheikh Zuwaid, a Ma'an reporter said.The landmine was believed to be leftover from a previous conflict.The three children, all brothers, were playing when the landmine exploded. They were seriously injured and transferred to el-Arish's general hospital, the reporter

Several Egyptian political forces have called for a series of protests in support of an anti-Morsi petition drive — Tamarod, or "Rebel" campaign — to kick off Friday.A million-man rally is scheduled for Friday with the aim of decrying the imprisonment of political activists and pressing for early presidential polls.The signature-collecting movement, which aims to gather 15 million

Daily News EgyptThe Supreme State Security Prosecution at the Fifth Settlement Court extended on Thursday the detention of eight detainees accused of being Black Bloc members for 15 days. The eight detainees were arrested in early morning police raids on their homes in April after the prosecutor general issued warrants for 22 alleged Black Bloc members.Ahmed Atef, member of the Front to Defend

United Press InternationalPolitical violence that grew out of the January anniversary of the Egyptian revolution is likely to continue, a warning from the U.S. government said.An Egyptian uprising in 2011 unseated long-time President Hosni Mubarak. Last year, Mohamed Morsi became the first president elected in a democratic vote in Egyptian history.Frustration with Morsi's administration has led

Daily News EgyptThe Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE) said student elections were more democratic and showed higher participation rates than previous years but the current elections system may need reconsideration.The NGO released a report Thursday titled the, “fall back of the Muslim Brotherhood students and the rise of new student groups.”After being postponed

Daily News EgyptA report was filed on Wednesday to the Supreme State Security Prosecution accusing the Tamarod campaign of attempting to overthrow the regime.Tamarod, or “Rebellion”, is a petition campaign that was launched in late April to gather signatures to withdraw confidence from President Mohamed Morsi’s leadership.Lawyer Ashraf Nagui filed the report against campaign

Egypt's prominent political forces continue to announce their backing of the recently launched anti-Morsi 'Rebel' campaign, giving a fresh momentum to the defiant initiative.Egypt's Constitution Party, founded by democracy advocate Mohamed ElBaradei, announced on Thursday its official and "full" support of the petition movement that seeks to collect signatures in favour of a vote of no-confidence

The 6 October Misdemeanour Court on Wednesday fined television host Jihan Mansour LE10,000 for "insulting" and "defaming" Essam El-Erian, vice president of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party.The court ordered Mansour to pay LE10,000 in "compensation" to the veteran Muslim Brotherhood member.Last October, El-Erian accused the Dream TV host of taking money to insult him and the

Ma'an News AgencyGaza's Interior Ministry announced a state of alert along its border with Egypt on Thursday after gunmen kidnapped seven Egyptian soldiers and police officers in Sinai.The Hamas-run ministry said security was heightened in case the kidnappers tried to smuggle the Egyptian servicemen into the Gaza Strip.Witnesses told Ma'an that Egyptian forces closed seven smuggling tunnels in

Kuwait News AgencyEgyptian President Mohammad Morsi is keen on holding the justice conference and will make sure that resolutions from the event will be forwarded to the legislative council for deliberation, said a Presidential spokesman here late Wednesday.Spokesman Amr Amer told the press that President Morsi was keen on providing sovereignty to each authority in Egypt, to enable them to

A number of prominent figures, during thier participation in "Arab Jerusalem Conference forever" conference organized by a number of Nasiri parties and movements, signed Egyptian Anti-president form.And comes on top of figures that have signed the form, Abdel Hakim Abdel Nasser, son of the Egyptian late President Gamal Abdel Nasser.Meanwhile, a number of Nasiri parties and movements has launched

Egypt's security sources said on Thursday that the Egyptian army prepares to a military operation on extremist armed groups in Sinai after kidnapping 7 security men.Central Security sector announced that armed groups in Sinai have kidnapped a 7 security men during thier monthly leave. And there are fears of smuggling them to the Gaza Strip through the

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi on Thursday summoned his defence and interior ministers over the kidnapping hours earlier of policemen and soldiers in the Sinai peninsula, the official MENA agency reported.The crisis talks at the presidential palace come after unidentified gunmen kidnapped three Egyptian policemen and four soldiers in the lawless Sinai peninsula, security officials said.The