Tag: Mohamed Mursi
Egypt sentences dozens to jail over 2013 sit-in
A court in Egypt sentenced 59 people to 15 years in prison on Thursday for their role in organising and participating in a 2013...
Turkey to push for trial of Egypt government over Mursi death
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday vowed to try to ensure the Egyptian government is tried in international courts for the death of former...
Egyptian ex-president Mursi buried in Cairo as Islamists mourn
Modern Egypt’s first democratically elected leader, Mohamed Mursi, was buried in a small family ceremony on Tuesday, a day after suffering a fatal heart...
Egypt’s ousted Islamist president Mursi dies after collapsing in court
Former Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi, the first democratically elected head of state in Egypt’s modern history, died on Monday aged 67 after collapsing in...
Egypt sentences ex-President Mursi, 19 others to three years in jail...
A Cairo criminal court sentenced former Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi and 19 others to three years in prison on Saturday, and fined...
Egyptian court overturns ex-president Mursi’s death sentence
Egypt's Court of Cassation on Tuesday overturned a death sentence against deposed president Mohammed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood and ordered a...
Egyptian judge who tried Mursi survives assassination attempt
An Egyptian judge who tried former president Mohamed Mursi in 2015 survived an assassination attempt on Friday when a parked car exploded...
Egyptian court confirms 20-year prison sentence on Mursi
An Egyptian court confirmed a 20-year prison sentence against former president Mohamed Mursi on Saturday, judicial sources told Reuters.
The sentence was for...
Egypt’s deposed president Mursi appeals death sentence
The court-appointed legal team representing deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Mursi filed an appeal on Saturday at the country's highest court challenging sentences...
Egypt court hands Mursi death sentence in blow to Muslim Brotherhood
An Egyptian court sentenced deposed President Mohamed Mursi to death on Tuesday over a mass jail break during the country's 2011 uprising...
Egypt says uncovers Brotherhood plot, day before Mursi sentencing
Egypt said on Monday it had thwarted a Muslim Brotherhood plot against the state, a day before a court is expected to...
Egyptian court sentences Mursi to 20 years in prison
An Egyptian court sentenced ousted President Mohamed Mursi to 20 years in prison without parole on Tuesday for the killing of protesters...
Egypt carries out first execution of Mursi supporter
Egypt executed an Islamist on Saturday for a murder committed during riots in mid-2013, the first death sentence carried out against a...
Egyptian court puts ousted president Mursi on trial over Qatar link
An Egyptian court put ousted Islamist president Mohamed Mursi on trial on Sunday on charges of endangering national security by leaking state...
Egypt’s high court orders re-trial of policemen linked to 37 deaths
Egypt's highest appeals court ordered a re-trial on Thursday for four policemen in connection with the deaths of 37 people during political...
Egypt’s Mursi accuses army of role in deaths during 2011 protest
Egypt's ousted Islamist president Mohamed Mursi accused the country's army in one of his trials on Sunday of killing protestor during the...
Egypt bans pro-Mursi pressure group
Egypt on Thursday banned a pressure group that has pushed for the reinstatement of President Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood, who...
Egypt charges ex-president Mursi with leaking state secrets to Qatar
Egypt charged ousted president Mohamed Mursi and nine others on Saturday with endangering national security by leaking state secrets and sensitive documents...
Egyptian soldier killed in Sinai explosion
One soldier was killed and four others wounded in an explosion in the Egyptian town of Rafah, near the border with Israel,...
Five dead in Cairo on anniversary of Mursi ouster
Five men died in Cairo in separate incidents involving a bomb blast and protester clashes with security forces on Thursday, the first...
Egypt court sentences 102 Islamists to 10 years in jail
More than 100 supporters of Egypt's deposed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi were sentenced to ten years in jail on Saturday on charges...
US military aid to Egypt again halted; C295 deliveries continue
US Senator Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate subcommittee that oversees foreign aid, said on Tuesday last week that he would not...
Egyptian court jails 119 Mursi supporters
An Egyptian court sentenced 119 supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood of former president Mohamed Mursi to three years each in prison on...
Egypt deports man lobbying against mass death sentences
Egyptian authorities deported a rights campaigner hours after he flew in to deliver a petition against death sentences imposed on 529 supporters...
Egypt to pass new ‘anti-terrorism’ law
Senior Egyptian ministers said they would pass legislation on Thursday "connected to confronting terrorism", in a statement released hours after three explosions...
Egypt court sentences two Mursi supporters to death
An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced two supporters of former president Mohamed Mursi to death for murder during violence that broke out...
One killed in Cairo clashes over Muslim Brotherhood rulings
One person was killed near Egypt's Cairo University on Wednesday when protesters supporting ousted President Mohamed Mursi clashed with security forces, a...
Protests over trials of Muslim Brotherhood members erupt in Alexandria
Police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of demonstrators gathered on Tuesday at Alexandria University to protest against mass trials of Muslim...
Liberal Egyptian group opposes any Sisi run for presidency
Egypt's April 6 protest group, which helped topple Hosni Mubarak in 2011, spoke out on Wednesday against any attempt by army chief...
Egypt panel mostly blames Mursi supporters for deaths in protest break-up
A government-appointed panel said on Wednesday that the deaths of hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood supporters at a protest camp in Cairo last...
Egypt’s Sisi signals he will run for president
Egypt's armed forces chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi signaled on Tuesday that he will run for president, saying he cannot ignore...
Lawyers for Egypt’s deposed President Mursi stage walk-out
Lawyers for deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi withdrew in protest after he appeared in court on Sunday on charges of conspiring with...
Egypt’s Sabahi calls for release of ‘prisoners of conscience’
Egyptian politician Hamdeen Sabahi on Wednesday called for the release of what he termed "prisoners of conscience," days after he announced he...
Egypt court adjourns Mursi trial over protester deaths
A Cairo court on Saturday adjourned the trial which sees Egypt's ousted President Mohamed Mursi accused of inciting the killing of protesters,...
Egypt’s generals give Sisi green light to run for president
Egypt's top military council gave the army chief, Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, a green light on Monday to seek election as...
Egypt charges secularists alongside Mursi in new case
Deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Mursi was on Sunday ordered to stand trial for insulting the judiciary, legal sources said, alongside 24 others...
Egypt’s Brotherhood rejects terrorism charges against Mursi
The Muslim Brotherhood denounced the Egyptian authorities on Thursday for charging former President Mohamed Mursi and other Islamists with terrorism and conspiring...
Egypt sends Mursi to trial for international conspiracy
Egypt's public prosecutor charged former President Mohamed Mursi and 35 other top Islamists on Wednesday with conspiring with foreign groups to commit...
Car bomb kills one police officer in Ismailia
An Egyptian police officer was killed and 35 others were injured when a car blew up near their base in the Suez...
Egypt puts Brotherhood leader on trial, students protest
The Muslim Brotherhood's leader turned on his accusers on Monday when he appeared in court for the first time since he was...
Egyptian police fire tear gas to end clashes in Cairo
Egyptian police used tear gas on Friday to end clashes in Cairo between supporters and opponents of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Mursi,...
Leading Egyptian activist turns himself in
Ahmad Maher, a symbol of the popular uprising that ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011, turned himself in to the authorities on...
Egypt moderates under fire from Mubarak loyalists, Islamists
A leading Egyptian social democrat fears the elite that thrived under former President Hosni Mubarak will once again dominate politics in elections...
Child killed by gunfire in clashes in Egypt’s Suez city
A 10-year-old boy was shot dead on Friday near the scene of clashes between supporters and opponents of deposed Islamist president Mohamed...
Student shot dead at a Cairo university protest
A student was shot dead in clashes between supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi and security forces at Al-Azhar University in...
Egyptian army chief Sisi does not rule out presidential bid
Egyptian army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who led the overthrow of President Mohamed Mursi, held open the possibility he might run...
Egypt blames militants for officer’s killing in Cairo
Egyptian security officials have blamed Islamist militants for the shooting death of an Interior Ministry lieutenant colonel, the highest-profile killing in Cairo...
Islamist coalition calls for dialogue to ease Egypt’s crisis
A coalition of Islamists said on Saturday it was ready to seek dialogue to end Egypt's bloody political crisis, on condition that...
Pro-Mursi students, police, residents clash at Egyptian university
Egyptian police fired tear gas on Tuesday at student supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi who were protesting at the university...
