Dozens of students were injured in the vicinity of the Defense Ministry as security forces dispersed them with tear gas.

Defence lawyers for the Muslim Brotherhood's Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie and 50 of the group's leaders withdrew from the first session of a trial on Tuesday in which the defendants are accused of orchestrating violence in the immediate aftermath of the dispersal of a pro-Brotherhood protest camp in Cairo last August.

There are new efforts to find political solution for the current situation in Egypt, National Alliance to Support Legitimacy member Mohamed Ali Beshr said, according to Anadolu Agency Monday.

Security Forces arrested Monday 10 Al-Azhar University students, allegedly affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, who are accused of setting fire to three vehicles during campus demonstrations.

Speculation around the death of a Christian young woman at a Muslim Brotherhood protest in Ain Shams last Friday are wide ranging, but despite numerous media reports there is still little known about who killed Mary Sameh George.

A number of leaders of the political alliance supporting deposed president Mohamed Morsy have stressed that the group would boycott the presidential elections slated for May, though an official decision has yet to be reached.

Hamas denied reports that three of its members were detained in Egypt while planning to assassinate Field Marshal Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, reported the Anadolu News Agency Sunday.

A group of Egyptian Copts dubbed the "Coalition of Coptic Egypt" announced in a press conference Saturday its support for former Defense Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi bid's for presidency.

Egyptian police have arrested members of the "Ansar al-Sharia in Ard al-Kenana" organisation which has recently carried out several terrorist attacks targeting security personnel, the interior minister said on Sunday in a televised press conference.

Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat ordered on Sunday the referral of seven men accused of killing a policeman to the criminal court.

A retired military colonel was shot dead by a masked group of assailants in Ismailia, near a desert highway connecting the Suez Canal city and Cairo.

The committee tasked with managing the Muslim Brotherhood’s funds decided on Thursday to seize the assets of five additional associations, Youm7 reported.

Shubra Criminal Court adjourned Thursday the trial of Mohamed Badie, the supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, in the “Qalyub Highway” case to April 2.

Hundreds of Al-Azhar University Brotherhood students staged marches on Thursday to protest against Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announcing his candidacy for the presidential elections, chanting slogans against the military.

Amid the controversy over the past days following the death penalty of more than 500 Muslim Brotherhood members, the Islamist organization is now seeking international support for alleged human rights abuses against its members by the current regime.

Mawso'at Al-'Onf fi Al-Harakat Al-Islamiya Al-Mossallaha (Encyclopaedia of Violence in Armed Islamic Movements) by Mukhtar Nooh, Sama Publishing, Cairo, 2014. 535 pages

Protests by Muslim Brotherhood supporters took place on Wednesday outside Cairo University, according to privately owned TV channel CBC.

The fact-finding committee of the 30 June incidents said violence against Copts is still continuing in certain governorates, especially in Luxor, Sohag and Aswan, including kidnapping, preventing them from practicing religion, expelling them from their homes, burning their houses and looting their shops.

The Mansoura Misdemeanor Court in Daqahlia handed 15 members of the Muslim Brotherhood sentences between one to three years in prison Tuesday on charges of crowding, calling for overthrowing the regime and possessing weapons.

Tens of students loyal to toppled president Mohamed Morsy set on marches on Wednesday from Cairo University's law school preparing to take part in demonstrations called for by the group in condemnation for a recent death sentences against fellows in Minya.

Hazem Abu Ismail, 2012 presidential candidate and Salafi leader, was denied his request to change judges on Wednesday by the Cairo Court of Misdemeanors.