A Cairo appeal court ordered on Tuesday deposed president Mohamed Morsi to stand trial on 16 February over allegations he collaborated with Hamas, Hezbollah and other organisations to commit terrorist acts in Egypt.

Prominent Egyptian Salafist Sheikh Yasser El-Borhamy has levelled accusations at Muslim Brotherhood leaders for last August's violent dispersals of the group's two sit-ins in Cairo, saying that they are responsible for the hundreds of their members who were killed by security forces whom "they abandoned".

CAIRO, Jan 20 (Aswat Masriya) Prominent Salafi preacher and politician Hazem Salah Abu Ismail was sentenced to one year in prison, with labor, on Monday, for insulting the Egyptian judiciary.

Pro-Muslim Brotherhood students in Asyut attempted to break into the administration building of Asyut University Monday, after protesting in front of the Faculty of Science, but were stopped by security.

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Members of the Britain First party protested Saturday in front of the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters in London, to urge the expulsion of the group from England, according to its website.

A Cairo University spokesperson said on Monday that the university’s council had agreed to allow police on the campus, Al-Ahram Arabic reported.

Attorney General Hisham Barakat has referred deposed president Mohamed Morsi and 25 others to a criminal court for “insulting the judiciary.”

Russians have celebrated the Orthodox Christian holiday of Epiphany by dipping themselves into below zero freezing waters.

Any national reconciliation starts with the political will among all disputed parties to realize the reconciliation, General Secretary Assistant of Al-Nour Party Shaaban Abdel Aleem said Sunday.

The Muslim Brotherhood’s “greed and stubbornness” prevented positive changes in Egypt after the January 25 revolution, Salafist Nour Party spokesperson Naddar Bakkar has claimed.

North and South Giza prosecutions ordered on Sunday remanding 75 suspects affiliated to the Muslim Brotherhood, including a woman and a high school student, for 15 days pending investigations for involvement in riots in Giza in the areas of Cairo University, 6 October City, Imbaba and Haram on Thursday and Friday.

Hymns echoing from the new church in this village in Egypt’s southern heartland could be heard well after sundown Wednesday, a reminder of the jubilant mood as Aziyah’s Christian residents vote on a new constitution.

Egypt’s interior ministry announced late Wednesday that a total of 444 Muslim Brotherhood members were arrested during the two-day constitution referendum.

“Preliminary referendum results demonstrate the people’s strong support for the June 30 revolution…and prove that those who claim that the people are with the return of Mohamed Morsi do not have a presence,” Head of the Salafi Nour Party Younes Makhioun told Youm7 on Thursday.

Giza prosecution is investigating 19 pro-Muslim Brotherhood supporters, charged with rioting in front of a polling station in Mansouria during constitution referendum voting.

Despite a high turnout among Salafi Nour Party members in the constitutional referendum, many of the party’s young members did not participate, the party’s deputy head Yasser Borhami said in a telephone interview with Mehwer Channel on Thursday.

A security source revealed that monitored phone calls of Muslim Brotherhood members revealed that the organization has been preparing a press conference to claim that participation in the constitutional referendum was low, not exceeding six percent.

A group of the Muslim Brotherhood supporters set fire to the Roxy traffic station, causing the station to completely burn down. A group of the Muslim Brotherhood supporters set fire to the Roxy traffic station, causing the station to completely burn down.

CAIRO: Egyptian tycoon Naguib Sawiris, whose family controls Orascom corporate empire, said during a phone call to CNN channel on Tuesday that he did not bankroll the opposition against former President Mohamed Morsi, saying that his party the Free Egyptians Party simply supported the Tamarod campaign by offering them logistical supports and collecting signature for them.

Rulers of the Gaza Strip Hamas condemned Wednesday recent statements allegedly made by Egyptian officials regarding a potential military offence on the Strip bordering Egypt and Israel, reported state-owned news agency MENA.