The Islamic State franchise Sinai Peninsula has claimed responsibility for the bombing of a Cairo courthouse as the Egyptian government continues to grapple with an insurgency that has targeted the legal system, police, and military.
A bomb exploded in central Cairo as the government continues to face an insurgency growing in boldness and intensity.
Egypt postponed the decision on a death sentence for Muhamed Morsi, the country's first democratically elected president, as the government arrested two other leaders of Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood.
Three Egyptian judges were killed after news broke that the deposed, democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi would be sentenced to death by the military government.
Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has been sentenced to three years in prison for corruption charges in an effort to legitimize the military dictatorship of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, whose regime has killed thousands of protesters.
Cairo court sentences Mohamed Morsi over killing of hundreds of protesters in 2012 for 20 years.
The Egyptian government has sentenced a US citizen to life in prison for participating in protests just days after the US restored military aid that had been cut off because of Egypt's military dictatorship.
An Egyptian court has dropped all the remaining charges against the former dictator Hosni Mubarak, completing the rollback of the gains made during the Egyptian revolution of 2011.
The former democratically-elected president of Egypt Mohamed Morsi, who was deposed in a military coup and subsequently arrested, has been charged with sharing state secrets with the government of Qatar.
09 Aug '24 16:35PM
