Muslim Brotherhood leading figure Mohamed Ali Bishr denied that he or other leaders of the group left the country after Abdel Fattah al-Sisi won the presidential elections.

Figures of the Muslim Brotherhood-led National Alliance to Support Legitimacy (NASL) said on Tuesday the alliance will soon form a large entity that includes revolutionary forces opposed to ‘military rule.’

Cairo Criminal Court, headed by Judge Mohamed Nagy Shehata, adjourned Wednesday the trial of Supreme Guidance of the Muslim BrotherhoodMohamed Badie and 50 other Muslim Brotherhood members to June 17.

A former Muslim Brotherhood leader has warned that government oppression in Egypt is fanning militancy that will pose a threat abroad unless the army-backed authorities start respecting freedom and human rights.

The parliamentary elections law adopted on Monday included the presence of three women and three Coptic Christians on the electoral list, which caused controversy within the Salafist Nour Party.

Cairo Criminal Court adjourned Tuesday the trial of Muslim Brotherhood leaders Mohamed al-Beltagy and Safwat Hegazy to June 8 to review the accusations of torturing two police officers Mohamed Farouk and Hani Eid during the Rabaa al-Adaweya sit-in, Youm7 reported.

The Banha Criminal Court in Qalyubiya has set 2 July as a date for issuing its verdict against Abdallah, the son of former president Mohamed Morsy, over charges related to possession of hashish.

LUXOR, Egypt – A security official in Egypt says a mob of angry Islamists has burned shops owned by Coptic Christians near the ancient city of Luxor hours before a trial for a Coptic Christian accused of blasphemy.

A security official in Egypt says a mob of angry Islamists has burned shops owned by Coptic Christians near the ancient city of Luxor hours before a trial for a Coptic Christian accused of blasphemy.

An Egyptian court resumed on Monday the trial of ousted President Mohamed Mursi and 35 other Muslim Brotherhood leaders over allegations that they spied for foreign bodies.

You might recall the case of 27-year-old Meriam Yahia Ibrahim, a pregnant Christian woman married to a naturalized American citizen who was imprisoned in Sudan, which we reported here.

Human rights group Freedom for the Brave organised a protest on Sunday calling for the release of detained Al Jazeera journalist, Abdullah Elshamy, and fixer Mohamed Sultan.

An Egyptian court sentenced on Saturday 34 Muslim Brotherhood supporters to two years, fining them 1,000 pounds each, and acquitted two others over clashes in Old Cairo during celebrations of the third anniversary of the January 25 uprising.

The new draft House of Representatives Law will include seats for women, Copts, as well as Egyptian expats and special needs representatives, reported Al-Ahram newspaper Sunday.

The Giza Criminal Court decided on Monday to postpone the trial of 20 Al Jazeera journalists in the case known as the “Marriott Cell” to 5 June to hear the prosecution's defense.

Three police officers were injured in a targeted explosion south of Sheikh Zuwayed in North Sinai Sunday evening, an official source said.

Alexandria police on Sunday referred a well known activist to prosecutors on charges of possession of material "insulting the armed forces."

On Friday, 16 May, as part of a group of diverse national and religious background, I had the opportunity to attend the moulid, or festival, of St. Dimyana at her namesake monastery in the village of Dimyana in the district Barrary-Belqas in the Egyptian Delta. In general, the trip, organised by the Center for Arab-West Understanding, provided a fascinating look into the dynamics of a popular religious celebration, as well as into the lives of the nuns that live and work on the grounds of the monastery.

Brotherhood supporters marched on Al-Haram street on Wednesday evening, disrupting traffic and chaning slogans against the armed forces and the police in an expression of their rejection of the presidential elections.

Amid the preliminary results of Egypt's presidential poll announced on Thursday, a "third revolutionary wave" has been declared by the largest coalition supporting ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi.