Why wearing a Barcelona shirt in the UAE could earn you a 15-year prison sentence
Eh? But true – anyone caught in the United Arab Emirates promoting Qatar Airways could get themselves prison time…
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Former head of Egypt’s Journalists Syndicate Yehia Kalash appeals suspended sentence
The former head of Egypt’s Journalists Syndicate, Yehia Kalash, has appealed to the Court of Cassation against a…
Egypt’s Habib El-Adly loses appeal against 7Yrs prison sentence
Former interior minister Habib El-Adly has lost an appeal against a seven-year prison sentence that he was handed…
Okasha sentenced to one year in prison for forging PhD certificate: Egypt’s court
Nasr City Misdemeanor Court sentenced media professional Tawfiq Okasha to one year in prison and fined him 5,000…
El-Tayeb appoints acting president for Egypt’s Al-Azhar University
Egypt's Grand Imam Ahmed El-Tayeb has appointed Mohamed Hussein El-Mahrsawy, the dean of the Arabic language…
Cairo Religious Affairs Committee ratifies unauthorised fatwa punishable by prison
The Religious Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives approved on Thursday the draft law regulating the…
Cairo Criminal Court imprisons Mubarak’s interior minister
Cairo Criminal Court on Sunday convicted former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly and 12 other officials in charges…
African migrants seeking Europe sold as ‘slaves’ for $200
African migrants trying to reach Europe are being sold into slavery in Libya, including for sex, for as little as…
Cairo Journalists Syndicate holds meeting for prison sentence against Qallash, others
Journalists Syndicate held Sunday an urgent meeting to mull the trade union and legal measures which should be…
Air strike on prison in Syria’s Idlib kills 16: monitor
At least 16 people were killed overnight in air strikes on a prison in the rebel-held city of Idlib in northwest…