A court in Cairo on Saturday sentenced prominent publisher and activist Hisham Kassem, ... Nasser Amin. The economic court that issued the verdict also fined him 20,000 Egyptian pounds ...

Amin said Kassem's lawyers had submitted a request for bail in a different form, but were surprised by a second case lodged against him alleging verbal assault of public employees while detained, ...

In a statement to Ahram Online, lawyer Nasser Amin denied reports suggesting former labour minister Kamal Abu Eita withdrew his complaint against publisher Hisham Kassem, adding that the trial was ...

El-Sayed Gamal El-Din, Saturday 16 Sep 2023. A Cairo Economic Misdemeanor Court on Saturday sentenced prominent publisher and liberal political activist Hisham Kassem to three months for insulting ...

Egyptian authorities have transferred prominent publisher and political activist Hisham Kassem to prison as he awaits trial on slander and verbal assault charges, his lawyer has said.

His lawyer Nasser Amin wrote on Facebook that the verdict would be appealed in a court hearing set to take place on October 7. Kassem, 64, had begun a hunger strike, his supporters said earlier ...