Latest in Tag: Hisham Barakat Highlight
Latest in Tag: Hisham Barakat

Op-ed review: executions, EU-Arab summit
Writers followed executing 9 prisoners over Hisham Barakatâs assassination, EU-Arab summit

9 defendants executed on charges of assassinating ex-prosecutor general
In June 2015, Barakat was killed by car bomb in front of his house in Cairo

Appeal Court approves death sentences of nine suspects for assassinating Hisham BarakatÂ
Verdict is final and cannot be appealed

Court upholds death verdicts in top official assassination case
30 defendants sentenced to death in Hisham Barakat case

Court sentenced 31 defendants to death in Hisham Barakat assassination case
The court will issue a final verdict on 22 July

Court postpones verdict in former prosecutor assassination case
67 defendants to hear court ruling next week

Court resumes trial in prosecutor-general assassination case
Defendants face several charges that include establishing illegal group

Court hears testimonies of security guards in Barakat assassination case
Trial of 67 defendants accused of killing former prosecutor to resume on 15 January

Forensics report in Hisham Barakat assassination case denies defendants were tortured
The defendants said in former sessions that they were subjected to ill treatment

Court lifts media gag on Hisham Barakat case
Cairo Criminal Court lifted the previously imposed media gag in the case of former general prosecutor Hisham Barakat’s assassination on Tuesday. The court resumed the case on Tuesday. Defendants are facing several charges that include establishing an illegal group, executing hostile operations against judges, army, and police officers, targeting diplomatic headquarters, and aiming to destroy …

Court resumes trial in prosecutor-general assassination case
Next hearing scheduled for 30 August

2 detainees in Barakat assassination case acquitted from charges of insulting judiciary
Trial postponed to 16 August amid continued complains from defendantsâ families of âinhumane detention conditionsâ

Detainees in Hisham Barakat assassination case subjected to violations: lawyer, families
Barakat was assassinated on 29 June 2015 in an attack that targeted his motorcade

Trial of assailants in Hisham Barakat assassination postponed to 13 July
The prosecution accused the defendants of cooperating with Hamas to provide perpetrators with logistic and military support, says state mediaÂ

First trial in prosecutor-generalâs assassination set for 14 June
Hisham Barakatâs motorcade was targeted by assailants in June 2015, which led to his assassination

67 defendants to stand trial for Hisham Barakatâs assassination
Barakat was assassinated last June in an attack on his motorcade

8 gag orders issued on prominent cases since 2015
State says media gags are used to avoid any impact on the judicial systemâs work, whereas the opposition rejects it, believing that it aims to stop public controversy or criticism

Hamas, Brotherhood deny Egyptâs accusations of âassassinatingâ Hisham Barakat
You should look among yourselves for the killer of the general prosecutor, says Brotherhood

Israel accuses detainee of recruiting, training Palestinians in Egypt for fight in Gaza
Thirty-three-year-old Palestinian will be sent to trial, according to an Israeli statement

Heat rises in Cairo
Egypt is set to explode. When and how is dependent on who pulls the trigger and why. Those who had the opportunity to peruse the previous article came to quickly understand that Egypt has galloped to a 3, on a danger scale of 1-5, in 2.5 years of de jure Al-Sisi rule. A combination of …

Minister of Interior accuses Brotherhood, Hamas of assassinating former prosecutor general
Barakat was assassinated in June 2015 in an attack that targeted his motorcade

6 suspects arrested for former prosecutor generalâs assassination
Prosecutor General Nabil Sadek ordered on Sunday the detention of six persons suspected of taking part in the assassination of former prosecutor general Hisham Barakat, according to state media. The suspects will be detained for 15 days pending investigations. The Ministry of Interior is set to issue a statement on the case later on Wednesday, …

Bomb targets officers in Giza, no casualties reported
Security forces said the bombing targeted a building hosting three officers

Sadeq sworn in as new Prosecutor General
Nabil Sadeq sworn in as Egyptâs highest legal representative after assassination of predecessor Hisham Barakat

Mass trial of 215 âHelwan Brigade membersâ postponed
Defendants are accused of causing the deaths of six policemen

Unknown militant group claims Prosecutor General assassination
Video posted on social media to claim attack does not provide any visual evidence

2 alleged Ajnad Misr members killed
The two killed were suspects in the Italian Consulate bombing earlier in July

Rabaa Al-Adaweya Square renamed after assassinated Prosecutor General
The request was made in order to âerase the memoryâ of the Rabaa Al-Adaweya sit-in, says Head of Judges Club
Al-Sisi vows to protect diplomatic missions
President met Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni Monday, following a car bomb targeting the Italian Consulate in Cairo

New anti-terrorism law seen as setback to press freedom, to the benefit of ‘terrorists’
Public will adopt views of terrorism-supporting media amid absence of official information, says Al-Shorouk newspaper chief editor