Three leading anti-Mubarak activists jailed for 3 years in Egypt

Last Updated: Sunday, December 22, 2013, 21:58

Three top activists who spearheaded the 2011 revolution that toppled Egyptian Hosni Mubarak were sentenced to 3 years in jail for organising illegal demonstration, under new controversial protest law.

Egypt officials arrest activist, storm center

Last Updated: Thursday, December 19, 2013, 20:05

Egypt`s official news agency and a human rights lawyer say security forces have arrested a prominent activist and raided a rights center.

Egypt court acquits ex-PM, Mubarak sons of corruption

Last Updated: Thursday, December 19, 2013, 17:06

An Egyptian court has acquitted Ahmed Shafiq, a former prime minister and presidential candidate, and two sons of ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak, of corruption charges.

Hosni Mubarak retrial resumes in Egypt

Last Updated: Sunday, December 15, 2013, 20:00

Egypt`s former president Hosni Mubarak was brought to a criminal court, as former chief of staff of the armed forces Sami Anan will testify over charges against him, media reported Sunday.

Former army chief to testify in Mubarak`s retrial

Last Updated: Saturday, December 14, 2013, 19:26

Egypt`s former army chief Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi is set to testify in a criminal court here in the retrial of ousted president Hosni Mubarak.

Egypt judges urged to free jailed female protesters

Last Updated: Sunday, December 8, 2013, 00:16

The lawyer for 21 Egyptian women and girls jailed over an Islamist protest told appeal courts on Saturday there was no evidence of their guilt and urged judges to free them.

Egypt police fire tear gas at pro-Morsi students in Tahrir

Last Updated: Monday, December 2, 2013, 00:34

Police fired tear gas as more than two thousand students backing ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi entered Cairo`s Tahrir Square to demonstrate against July`s military "coup".

Egypt panel retains military trials in new charter

Last Updated: Sunday, December 1, 2013, 22:47

Egypt`s constitution-drafting panel voted to retain military trials for civilians in cases despite opposition from secular activists and rights groups concerned over the army`s wide-ranging powers.

Leading Egyptian activist turns himself in

Last Updated: Saturday, November 30, 2013, 20:10

Ahmad Maher, a symbol of the popular uprising that ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011, turned himself in to the authorities on Saturday after an order for his arrest was made for defying a tough new law restricting demonstrations.

Protesters wounded as Egypt police storm Tahrir Square

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 20, 2013, 09:45

Egyptian riot police backed by armoured vehicles stormed Cairo`s Tahrir Square to disperse stone-throwing protesters, firing tear gas and shots to scatter the demonstrators, a news agency reporter said.

Memorial at Egypt`s Tahrir Square sparks protest

Last Updated: Monday, November 18, 2013, 23:41

Where tents once sprouted and giant crowds chanted against their rulers, Egypt`s interim Prime Minister on Monday inaugurated the start of what is to be a memorial to protesters killed in the country`s revolutionary turmoil in the center of Tahrir Square.