• Tuesday, 19 April 2022

    Last Night’s Talk Shows: Private sector involvement in national projects + Rulings in prominent court cases

    The private sector will soon account for 75-80% of national projects and investment, Ala Mas’ouleety’s Ahmed Moussa claimed last night (watch, runtime: 4:25), praising state efforts to increase the role of the private sector in national projects and improve the...
  • Monday, 17 May 2021

    Egypt in the News on 17 May 2021

    Leading coverage of Egypt this morning in the foreign press: Egypt’s prosecutor general has temporarily halted the nine-month probe into the 2014 [redacted] assault case at the Fairmont Hotel, ordering the release of the four suspects due to “insufficient evidence,”...
  • Thursday, 5 December 2019

    Defendant sentenced to 10 years in jail for assassination of Hisham Barakat

    A Cairo criminal court has handed a 10-year jail sentence to a defendant found guilty of involvement in the 2015 assassination of prosecutor general Hisham Barakat, according to Asharq Al Awsat. Sixty-seven people were put on trial in connection with...
  • Sunday, 15 September 2019

    Hamada El Sawi appointed as Egypt’s new prosecutor general

    MOVES- El Sisi appoints Hamada El Sawi as new Prosecutor General: President Abdel Fattah El Sisi issued a decree appointing counselor Hamada El Sawi as the country's new Prosecutor General, succeeding Nabil Sadek whose term ends on September 19, according...
  • Tuesday, 19 March 2019

    Ten detained over calls to protest in Egypt

    The State Security Prosecution has ordered the detention of 10 individuals on charges of belonging to an illegal terrorist organization, spreading false news on social media, and calling for illegal protests against the proposed constitutional amendments, reports Al Masry Al...
  • Sunday, 3 February 2019

    Prosecutor-general refers 26 officials to court on corruption charges

    JUSTICE WATCH- 26 state officials face corruption charges for their alleged involvement in the “seizure” of public funds worth an estimated EGP 67 mn, reports Ahram Online. Separately, the Public Prosecutor’s Office ordered the detention of three state officials for...
  • Sunday, 23 December 2018

    Prosecutor General refers 13 officials to criminal court in wheat corruption case

    Prosecutor General Nabil Sadek referred 13 silo employees to criminal court yesterday on charges of graft worth EGP 607 mn, according to Youm7.

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