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November Hearings


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Date Details
1 - November
2021
  • Manasa incidents

     Cairo Criminal Court, The Police Cadets Institute, number of defendants: 79

    Charges: Assuming the leadership of a group that is established contrary to the provisions of the law and the Constitution, preventing state institutions and public authorities from carrying out their duties, attacking citizens’ personal freedom and public freedoms and rights guaranteed by the constitution and the law, disrupting national unity and social peace, providing an outlawed group with material aid, weapons, and ammunition, organizing a gathering with the purpose of committing premeditated murder crimes in implementation of a terrorist purpose, using force, violence and threats against public officials to unjustly compel them to refrain from performing an act of their job, willful sabotage of buildings and public property designated for government and public facilities in implementation of a terrorist purpose, and displaying force and threatening to use violence with the intent of disturbing public security and peace.

  • Dispersal of Rabaa sit-in

    Giza Criminal Court, Police Cadets Institute, number of defendants 28

    Charges: Premeditated murder of citizens and police forces, attempted murder, intentional obstruction of transportation, demonstration without notification, gathering, intentional destruction of public and private property, possession and acquisition of weapons and ammunition without notification

  • Trial of Alaa Abdel-Fattah and Mohamed Oxygen

    New Cairo Emergency State Security Misdemeanor Court, Fifth Settlement Court, number of defendants: 3 

    Charges: Spreading false news and statements

2 - November
2021
  • Kuwait Returnees

    Cairo Criminal Court, Police Cadets Institute, number of defendants: 14

    Charges: Leading a terrorist group that aims at calling for disrupting the provisions of the constitution and laws, preventing state institutions and public authorities from carrying out their work, attacking citizens’ personal freedom and public rights, and harming national unity and social peace.

    From the hearing of 2 October 2021

3 - November
2021
  • Customs corruption

    Cairo Criminal Court, Abbassyia North Cairo, number of defendants: 1

    Charges:  Wasting the state’s public funds 

    The court set the lawsuit for adjudication at the hearing of 8 December 2021  

  • Killing and terrorizing citizens in Matariya

    Cairo Criminal Court, Police Cadets Institute, number of defendants: 10

    Charges: Participating in a gathering with the aim of attacking people and undermining the duties of public authorities using force and violence, as some of the defendants were in possession of firearms and ammunition.

    The court adjourned the case for 15 November 2021  

  • Al-Nahda Sit-in dispersal incidents

    Giza Criminal Court, Police Cadets Institute, number of defendants” 6 (Retrial procedures)

    Charges: Joining a terrorist group or gang, participating in a gathering aimed at disturbing public security and peace and endangering the lives of citizens, resisting the police officers in charge of dispersing their gathering, premeditated killing, blocking roads and opposing the June 30 Revolution

4 - November
2021
  • Al-Fath Mosque incidents

    Giza Criminal Court, Police Cadets Institute, number of defendants: 12
    Charges: Desecration of Al-Fateh Mosque, disrupting prayers, deliberate and attempted murder, gathering, bullying, sabotaging public and private facilities, possessing motorized firearms, cartridges, ammunition and explosives, blocking roads, disrupting public transportation and endangering the safety of people- which are crimes that took place during the period from 16 to 17 August 2013- in addition to joining a group established contrary to the provisions of the law and vandalization of public property.

6 - November
2021
  • The 3rd anniversary of January Revolution

    Cairo Criminal Court, the Police Cadets Institute, number of defendants: 8 

    -Charges: Murder, attempted murder, assembly, display of force, threat of violence, vandalism of public property, and illegal disturbance of public peace.

    The court adjourned the case to 11 December 2021 

  • Al-Arab Police Station Incidents

    Port Said Criminal Court, Police Cadets Institute, number of defendants 10

    Charges: Joining a group established contrary to the provisions of the law and carrying out terrorist operations

  • Imbaba-ISIS Cell

    Giza Criminal Court, The Police Cadets Institute, number of defendants: 12

    Charges: Leading a terrorist group whose purpose is to call for disturbing public order, disrupting the provisions of the constitution and laws, preventing state institutions and public authorities from carrying out their duties, assaulting citizens’ personal freedom  alongside public freedoms and rights, harming national unity, social peace and national security, leading and managing a group cell, named “ISIS”, accusing the ruler of being disbeliever and calling for the legitimacy to remove him from office and to forcefully topple the regime, assaulting members of the armed forces and police and attacking their institutions, and calling for the killing of Christians and their places of worship.

7 - November
2021
  • Al-Zeitoun Cell I

    Cairo Criminal Court, Police Cadets Institute, Number of defendants: 2 

    Charges: Joining a terrorist group established contrary to the provisions of the law with the aim to call for the disruption of the Constitution, preventing state institutions and public authorities from carrying out their work, attacking the citizens’ public freedoms and harming national unity and social peace.

  • The raid on Nasr City

    Cairo Criminal Court, Police Cadets Institute, Number of defendants: 1

    Charges: Gathering, display of force, sabotage, vandalism, and armed resistance to men of public authority

    The court adjourned the case to 9 January 2022

  • Detention, torture and killing of a citizen

    Cairo Criminal Court, Police Cadets Institute, number of defendants: 22

    Charges: Joining a terrorist group, killing a citizen, kidnapping, detaining and torturing another citizen, possessing weapons and ammunition without a license

8 - November
2021
  • Trial of Alaa Abdel-Fattah and Mohamed Oxygen

    New Cairo Emergency State Security Misdemeanor Court, Fifth Settlement Court, number of defendants: 3 

    Charges: Spreading false news and statements

  • The Cabinet Incidents

    Cairo Criminal Court, Police Cadets Institute, Number of defendants: 3

    Charges: Gathering, protesting without notice, vandalism of public and private property, arson, and attempted murder

    The court adjourned the case to 21 November 2021

  • The arson of "Kafr Hakim" Church

    Cairo Criminal Court, Police Cadets Institute, Number of defendants: 2

    Charges: Joining a group established contrary to the provisions of the law and the Constitution that would disrupt the interests of the state and disturb peace, committing acts of violence, storming the Church of the Virgin Mary located in the village of Kafr Hakim, stealing its contents, and setting it on fire.

    The court adjourned the case to 21 November 2021

  • Suez incidents- Al Joker

    Cairo Criminal Court, Police Cadets Institute, number of defendants: 103
    Charges: Taking part in a gathering that resulted in crimes of attempted murder, use of force against public officials, attacking public officials, endangering transportation, committing an act of terrorism with the intent of disturbing security and public order, possessing unlicensed weapons and ammunition

9 - November
2021
  • Members of the Egyptian Coordination for Rights and Freedoms

    Cairo Criminal Court, Police Cadets Institute, Number of defendants: 31

    Charges: Joining and assuming the leadership of a terrorist group, possessing of publications and recordings that promoted the purposes of that group, providing a terrorist group with financial aid with the knowledge of its purposes, committing a crime of terrorist financing, providing members of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood with funds and means of moral support.

    The court adjourned the case to 15 December 2021

11 - November
2021
  • "Al- Morabetoon" Cell

    Cairo Criminal Court, Police Cadets Institute، number of defendants: 5
    Charges: Joining a terrorist group that is established contrary to the provisions of the law and the Constitution using terrorism as a means to achieve its goals, and that its members received military training to carry out hostile operations against the Syria

  • Ansar Beit Al-Maqdes

    The Court of Cassation, High Court of Justice

    Considering the appeals submitted by 134 defendants against the death sentences, life imprisonment and rigorous prison sentences issued against them

    Charges: Establishing and taking leadership and joining a terrorist group  “Ansar Beit al-Maqdes” aimed at disrupting the provisions of the constitution and laws, preventing state institutions from carrying out their duty, assaulting citizens’ rights and freedoms , harming national unity and social peace, and colluding with a foreign organization “Hamas”, “the military wing of the Muslim Brotherhood group,” sabotaging state facilities, premeditated and attempted murder, and possessing weapons, ammunition and explosives

14 - November
2021
  • Helwan Brigades

    Cairo Criminal Court, Police Cadets Institute, number of defendants 215

    Charges: Assuming leadership of a group established contrary to the provisions of the law, the purpose of which is to call for disrupting the provisions of the constitution and laws, preventing state institutions and public authorities from carrying out their duties, attacking citizens’ personal freedoms and the public rights and freedoms provided for by the constitution and harming national unity and social peace

15 - November
2021
  • Killing and terrorizing citizens in Matariya

    Cairo Criminal Court, Police Cadets Institute, number of defendants: 10

    Charges: Participating in a gathering with the aim of attacking people and undermining the duties of public authorities using force and violence, as some of the defendants were in possession of firearms and ammunition.

  • Spying for ISIS

    Cairo Criminal Court, Police Cadets Institute, number of defendants: 8 

    Charges: Committing a crime of terrorism funding, providing and transferring funds and information to terrorist groups affiliated with ISIS terrorist organization.

16 - November
2021
  • Hisham Ashmawi Cell

    Cairo Criminal Court, Police Cadets Institute ,number of defendants: 12

    Charges: Leading a terrorist group whose purpose is to call for disturbing public order, disrupting the provisions of the constitution and laws, preventing state institutions and public authorities from carrying out their duties, assaulting citizens’ personal freedom  alongside public freedoms and rights, leading and managing a group cell accusing the ruler of being disbeliever and calling for the legitimacy to remove him from office and to forcefully topple the regime, assaulting members of the armed forces and police and attacking their institutions, and calling for the killing of Christians and their places of worship.

17 - November
2021
  • Hope Detainees

    Masr Al-Qadima State Security Misdemeanors Court, Zeinhom Court, number of defendants: 6

    Charges: spreading false news and statements

  • Breaching the Eastern Borders" Case

    Cairo Criminal Court,Police Cadets Institute, Number of defendant: 1

    Charges: Breaching the Egyptian prisons, attacking security and police facilities, and killing police officers during the January 2011 revolution.

20 - November
2021
  • Suez incidents- Al Joker

    Cairo Criminal Court, Police Cadets Institute, number of defendants: 103
    Charges: Taking part in a gathering that resulted in crimes of attempted murder, use of force against public officials, attacking public officials, endangering transportation, committing an act of terrorism with the intent of disturbing security and public order, possessing unlicensed weapons and ammunition

  • ISIS- Agouza Cell

    Agouza Criminal Court, Police Cadets Institute, number of defendants: 12

    Charges: Leading a terrorist group with the purpose of disrupting the current regime and endangering the safety, interests and security of society. The defendants (from the second to the last one) joined a terrorist group with their knowledge of its purposes, defendants (from the first to the 7th and 12) provided a terrorist group with funds and information for terrorism aims.

21 - November
2021
  • The arson of "Kafr Hakim" Church

    Cairo Criminal Court, Police Cadets Institute, Number of defendants: 2

    Charges: Joining a group established contrary to the provisions of the law and the Constitution that would disrupt the interests of the state and disturb peace, committing acts of violence, storming the Church of the Virgin Mary located in the village of Kafr Hakim, stealing its contents, and setting it on fire.

  • The Cabinet Incidents

    Cairo Criminal Court, Police Cadets Institute, Number of defendants: 3

    Charges: Gathering, protesting without notice, vandalism of public and private property, arson, and attempted murder

  • ISIS Helwan Cell

    Cairo Criminal Court, Police Cadets Institute, number of defendants 8

    Charges: Establishing and leading a terrorist group aimed at disrupting the provisions of the constitution and the law, and possessing unlicensed weapons and ammunition

22 - November
2021
  • Manasa incidents

     Cairo Criminal Court, The Police Cadets Institute, number of defendants: 79

    Charges: Assuming the leadership of a group that is established contrary to the provisions of the law and the Constitution, preventing state institutions and public authorities from carrying out their duties, attacking citizens’ personal freedom and public freedoms and rights guaranteed by the constitution and the law, disrupting national unity and social peace, providing an outlawed group with material aid, weapons, and ammunition, organizing a gathering with the purpose of committing premeditated murder crimes in implementation of a terrorist purpose, using force, violence and threats against public officials to unjustly compel them to refrain from performing an act of their job, willful sabotage of buildings and public property designated for government and public facilities in implementation of a terrorist purpose, and displaying force and threatening to use violence with the intent of disturbing public security and peace.

  • The Mufti of the Al-Nusra Front

    Cairo Criminal Court, Police of Cadets Institute, number of defendants:  

    Charges: Establishing and leading a terrorist group in violation of the provisions of the law with the purpose of disrupting the constitution and laws and prevent state institutions and public authorities from carrying out their duty. This group also aimed to accuse the ruler of being disbeliever and calling for the legitimacy to remove him from office, and to forcefully topple the regime, assaulting members of the armed forces and police and attacking their institutions, and calling for the killing of Christians and their places of worship, using terrorism as a means to achieve its objectives.

  • Agnad Organization

    Cairo Criminal Court, Police of Cadets Institute, number of defendants:  8

    Charges: Establishing a terrorist group in violation of the law with the purpose of calling for the disruption of the provisions of the constitution, preventing state institutions and public authorities from carrying out their work, sabotaging public property, resisting authorities, possessing firearms and ammunition, and assaulting the personal freedom of citizens.

23 - November
2021
  • Spying for ISIS

    Cairo Criminal Court, Police Cadets Institute, number of defendants: 8 

    Charges: Committing a crime of terrorism funding, providing and transferring funds and information to terrorist groups affiliated with ISIS terrorist organization.

24 - November
2021
25 - November
2021
  • Ansar Beit Al-Maqdes

    The Court of Cassation, High Court of Justice

    Considering the appeals submitted by 134 defendants against the death sentences, life imprisonment and rigorous prison sentences issued against them

    Charges: Establishing and taking leadership and joining a terrorist group  “Ansar Beit al-Maqdes” aimed at disrupting the provisions of the constitution and laws, preventing state institutions from carrying out their duty, assaulting citizens’ rights and freedoms , harming national unity and social peace, and colluding with a foreign organization “Hamas”, “the military wing of the Muslim Brotherhood group,” sabotaging state facilities, premeditated and attempted murder, and possessing weapons, ammunition and explosives

  • Mataryia Explosives Cell

    Cairo Criminal Court, Police of Cadets Institute, number of defendants:

    Charges: Possession of automatic rifle, 81 bullets, 4 RPGs, a defensive bomb, and 3 offensive bombs, and financing an illegal group with the purpose of disrupting the provisions of the constitution and laws, preventing state institutions and public authorities from carrying out their work, and assaulting citizens’ personal and public freedoms and rights guaranteed by the constitution and the law, and harming national unity. 

  • Ain Shams incidents

    Cairo Criminal Court, Police of Cadets Institute, number of defendants: 1 

    Charges: participating in a gathering of more than five people for the purpose of committing the crimes of intimidation, vandalism and willful damage to government buildings and vital facilities, using force and violence, with their knowledge of the intended purpose, as some of the defendants were carrying firearms and cold weapon.

29 - November
2021
  • The Cabinet Incidents

    Cairo Criminal Court, Police Cadets Institute, Number of defendants: 3

    Charges: Gathering, protesting without notice, vandalism of public and private property, arson, and attempted murder

  • Trial of human rights activist Hossam Bahgat

    The Economic Misdemeanor Court, The Economic Court, number of defendants: 1
    Charges: Insulting Egypt’s National Elections Authority

  • Trial of Engineer Yehia Hussein Abdel-Hady

    Nasr City Emergency State Security Misdemeanor Court, Nasr City Court, number of defendant: 1 

    Charges: Spreading false news and statements