An Egyptian court sentenced on Monday 28 defendants to life sentence and 15 to three years on charges of violating the country's controversial protest law.

A group of activists has created a trending hashtag on Twitter that translates to "we are being watched" in response to Egypt's launching of a security system to monitor online activities.

Ahmed Hanafy, member of the Hamdeen Sabbahi legal campaign committee, said on Sunday that Sabbahi is starting procedures to convert the Popular Trend into a political party within 10 days as a prelude to contesting the parliamentary elections.

The Cairo Criminal Court on Sunday decided to postpone the trial of former President Hosni Mubarak, his sons Alaa and Gamal, his Interior Minister Habib al-Adly and six of his aides in a case known as the "Trial of the Century” to 3 June to hear the defense.

Egypt’s elections committee said on Sunday it had rejected a defeated presidential candidate’s appeal against voting results that gave former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi a landslide victory.

The British government has described the Egyptian presidential election as important step towards a democratic transition in Egypt.

Presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabbahi’s electoral campaign raised skepticism over the results of the recent presidential elections. It said they submitted a number of complaints to the election commissions in Cairo and other governorates but were refused.

Presidential candidate Abdel Fatah al-Sisi appears to have swept voting in Damietta, earning more than 90 percent of votes according to initial press indicators, amid complaints of violations by observers from rival Hamdeen Sabbahi’s campaign.

The Journalists Syndicate announced Thursday it detected 43 violations against journalists during the presidential elections.

Former Egyptian military chief Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is poised to win the country's presidential election in a landslide -- though the fairness of the vote has been questioned.

With nearly all the ballots counted, Egypt's former military chief has won a crushing victory over his sole opponent with more than 92 percent of the votes, according to results announced by his campaign early Thursday.

Abdul Fattah Al Sissi, the former Egyptian army chief, looks set to win Egypt’s presidency by an expectedly high margin. Al Sissi was the front-runner in the election by a very long way and it was not a surprise when initial results showed that he had won 96 per cent of the vote. The only opposition candidate was the veteran left-winger, Hamdeen Sabahi. The various strands of Islamist parties failed to find a legal candidate, particularly as the Muslim Brotherhood and its supporters were defined as terrorists.

A Ministerial meeting was held in Egypt’s border crossing and resort of Taba Tuesday to discuss ways to reconstruct the areas that was damaged following the torrent that hit the town, Al-Wafd reported.

Presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabbahi said in a Thursday press conference following the end of the presidential election Wednesday that he respects the Egyptians’ choice and admits his loss in the election.

Polling in Egypt's presidential election has been extended for a third day after low turnout.

The campaign of presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi withdrew all its delegates from polling stations on Wednesday on the third day of Egypt's presidential election.

In its first statement on the third day of elections, Egypt's Press Syndicate reported several violations of media freedoms, including barring reporters from covering the vote at polling stations.

The Egyptian Navy has stopped an attempted illegal emigration operation by 87 individuals, including Syrians who were fleeing the country on a fishing boat off the coast of Alexandria.

The overall turnout of the Egyptian voters in the initial two days of presidential election 2014 reached only 7.5 percent of the total number of people listed in the electoral rolls, according to The Egyptian Center for Media and Public Opinion Studies, known as Takamol Masr.

Egypt's Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab said on Tuesday that those who do not vote in the country's presidential election will be fined in accordance with the law.