A Cairo city court sentenced 10 students and three professors from al-Azhar University to three years in prison on charges of illegal protesting, Egyptian daily al-Ahram reported on Wednesday.

Prosecution witnesses in the jailbreak trial of Egypt’s ousted president Mohammad Mursi on Wednesday accused members of Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas and Lebanon’s Hezbollah of attacking Egyptian prisons during the 2011 uprising.

Beni Suef Governor Magdi al-Beteity, said Muslim Brotherhood supporters in al-Maymoun village set a policeman’s brother's car on fire as authorities were arresting some of them per a prosecution order.

Former interior minister Mahmoud Wagdy gave his testimony on Wednesday in the trial of deposed president Mohamed Morsi on charges of breaking out of Wadi Al-Natroun prison during the January 2011 uprising.

Pro-Muslim Brotherhood activist Ahmed al-Mogheer praised the death of Brigadier Ahmed Zaki, who was killed on Wednesday as bomb blasted under his car at 6 October City.

Assiut Security Director Tarek Nasr told Al-Hayat channel on Wednesday that 20 Brotherhood students were arrested for possessing three bags of fireworks and Molotov cocktails at Al-Azhar University in Assiut.

A Cairo criminal court imposed a media ban on the espionage trial of deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi during Tuesday's session.

A Central Security conscript and a student were injured on Tuesday in clashes between Brotherhood students of Minya University and security forces that tried to disperse them with tear gas after blocking the Cairo-Aswan highway in front of the university gates.

France is to unveil policies to stop its citizens joining the Syrian civil war, a government source said on Tuesday, aiming to prevent young French Muslims becoming radicalized and posing a threat to their home country.

Head of the International Union of Muslim Scholars and pro-Muslim Brotherhood figure Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi denied on Sunday transferring his place of residence from Doha to Tunisia.

Qatar will no longer fund the international organization of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) after a deal reached between Doha and Gulf States, said Egypt’s Brotherhood Without Violence movement Sunday.

Chairperson of the International Union of the Muslim Scholars Yusuf al-Qaradawy contactedthe Saudi government through mediators to clarify his viewpoint regarding the Saudi-Qatari differences.

Azbakeya Misdemeanor Court sentenced Sunday 30 suspects to three and a half years in prison over involvement in clashes in January in front of the Supreme Court of Justice.

A security source in North Sinai said 10 extremists were arrested Friday and a bomb was defused in Sheikh Zuwaied.

In an apparent attempt to gain Coptic Christian political support, the two leading Egyptian presidential candidates will attend the Easter vigil liturgy celebrated by Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria.

The National Alliance to Support Legitimacy (NASL) called for a million-man march on Friday to Tahrir and Rabaa al-Adaweya squares.

The Suez public prosecutor on Thursday referred 40 members of the Muslim Brotherhood to a criminal court on charges of killing a child and inciting violence in the city.

All Muslim Brotherhood associations whose assets had been seized by the government will not be allowed to monitor the upcoming elections, said Khaled Sultan, head of the Central Administration of the Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in the Ministry of Solidarity on Wednesday evening.

Police arrested on Wednesday two Brotherhood students in 6 October City carrying automatic rifles and 63 bullets.

Cairo Criminal Court on Wednesday postponed the trial of deposed President Mohamed Morsy and 34 other leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood charged with collaborating with foreign bodies to 22 April in order to hear the prosecution witnesses.

Former presidential candidate Hazem Salah Abu Ismail was sentenced to 7 years in prison by the Cairo Criminal Court for forging documents to conceal his mother’s dual nationality, reported Youm7.