Unprecedented numbers of political prisoners in Egypt's jails could lead to a supersized version of an old problem: inmates becoming radicalized.... As Egypt's Jails Fill, Growing Fears Of A Rise In ...

A leading figure in Egypt's 2011 revolution was handed 15 years in prison on Wednesday after a retrial, a judicial source told AFP. Ahmed Douma was arrested in 2013 on charges of clashing with ...

Egypt sent five more men to prison April 9 for "habitual practice of debauchery." The men, arrested in an ongoing crackdown mostly on HIV-positive people, will spend three years in jail followed by an ...

An Egyptian court sentenced 14 supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi late Monday to two years in jail over charges of attempting to disrupt a referendum on the country's amended 2012 ...

An Egyptian court Wednesday jailed 69 Islamists for life for torching a church near Cairo in August 2013, as anger flared over a crackdown on supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi. The Coptic ...

In Egypt's overcrowded and putrid jails, families of prisoners fear a potentially catastrophic coronavirus outbreak and are calling for their imminent release as the rest of the country hunkers down.

A Christian man was freed from an Egyptian prison last month after three years of detention over Facebook posts he shared among an online group of converts from Christianity to Islam. Abdulbaqi Saeed ...

Eight Egyptian men have been sentenced to three years in jail for appearing in an online video that supposedly showed a gay wedding ceremony. The men were arrested in September after this video, which ...

CAIRO, Dec. 24 -- An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced Ayman Nour, the lawyer and politician who challenged President Hosni Mubarak at the polls, to five years in prison on charges of forging ...