Egypt's administrative Disciplinary Court halts an order to suspend Sheikh Mazhar Shahin, who is well-known for leading prayers in Cairo's Tahrir Square during and after Egypt's 18-day uprising in 2011.

A delegation from Al-Nour Party is scheduled to travel to the United States soon as part of an introductory tour for the party.

Ten defendants accused of murder, attempted murder, and causing damage to St Mark’s Cathedral during clashes at the cathedral in early April were released on bail on Monday.

The Strong Egypt Party said today that authorities are hindering efforts by its leader Abdel-Moneim Abul-Fotouh to communicate with the public.

An Egyptian criminal court acquitted on Monday Mostafa Hamza, a senior figure in Islamist group Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya, of charges of joining a restricted group that aimed to overthrow the regime, as well as taking part in planning the failed assassination attempt against ousted president Hosni Mubarak in Addis Ababa in 1995.

The Wasat Party has not withdrawn its proposals to amend the judicial authority law and has no plans to do so in future, the party has said.

A misdemeanour court in Cairo ordered Monday the release pending trial of ten people who had been arrested at the clashes that erupted at Cairo’s St. Mark’s Coptic Cathedral on 7 April.

Muslim Brotherhood students criticized repeated flagrant violations of the students’ most basic rights in university campuses across the country.

Around 300 Coptic Egyptians flew on Monday to Jerusalem to perform pilgrimage, reported a local newspaper.

Thousands of Al-Azhar University students have protested the lack of medical facilities on campus after a student died.

Fear and worry has driven many Coptic Christians to leave Egypt, Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II said in a recorded interview aired on Hayat satellite channel on Saturday.

The Egyptian embassy in Yemen secured the release of a young Egyptian citizen who was forcibly detained in the home of her family in Aden. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs the girl’s family attempted to force her to marry a relative.

In an official statement Saturday, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt held the Iraqi government responsible for ongoing violence, and called on all parties in Iraq to seek dialogue and reconciliation, unity and construction.

A Hamas official has denied Egyptian media reports claiming that Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood coordinated its operations with Hamas during the first days of the popular uprising in January 2011.

Deputy Chairman of the Freedom and Justice Party Essam El-Erian was handed a three year suspended sentence and fined EGP 15,000 by the First Sixth of October Misdemeanours Court in a slander and defamation lawsuit filed by television presenter Jihan Mansour.

One of Al-Jamaa Al-Islamiya’s leading figures, Assem Abdel Maged, announced his resignation from the group on Friday.

The Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party and several Islamist parties will postpone a million-man demonstration which was planned for Friday April 26.

Al-Azhar’s Council of Senior Scholars submitted its objections to the new sukuk law to the Economic Committee at the Shura Council, Tuesday.

Pope Francis called Wednesday for the release of two Syrian bishops kidnapped by gunmen near Aleppo, after a Christian group appeared to retract its claim that the clerics had been freed.

Egypt's biggest hardline Islamist Salafi party will not take up posts in a cabinet reshuffle expected next week, saying on Thursday that the proposed changes did not go far enough to fix the country's political crisis.

An Israeli citizen imprisoned for 12 years in Egypt on charges of spying, announced that he has begun a hunger strike in protestof the lack of measures taken to ensure his release, Israel Radio reported Wednesday.