Asyut court jails Abu Tig worker 3 years over 6 pieces of hashish
The Ninth Circuit of the Asyut Criminal Court sentenced a 29-year-old day labourer from Abu Tig to three years of rigorous imprisonment for possessing hashish for sale. Plainclothes officers had found six pieces of hashish weighing about 2.95 grams and 170 Egyptian pounds on him in June 2026.
The Ninth Circuit of the Asyut Criminal Court sentenced a defendant to three
years of rigorous imprisonment after convicting him of possessing hashish for
trafficking contrary to the law.[1]The defendant was a 29-year-old day
labourer who lived on Al-Nadi Al-Riyadi street in the Qibli Al-Balad area of Abu
Tig city in Asyut Governorate.[1]The case began in June 2026 when an
assistant investigator at the Abu Tig police station, acting on information from
a secret source that the man was promoting drugs, obtained the public
prosecution’s permission to arrest and search him.[1]A security force of
plainclothes officers rode hired tuk-tuks, three-wheeled motorcycles, to avoid
drawing attention, and detained him at the spot.[1]
In his left pocket officers found a matchbox holding six dark pieces suspected
to be hashish, together with 170 Egyptian pounds.[1]He admitted holding the
drugs for sale and said the money was proceeds of that trade.[1]The forensic
chemical laboratory of the Justice Ministry reported that the pieces, weighing
about 2.95 grams, contained cannabis resin.[1]
The First Attorney General for the South Asyut prosecutions referred him in
custody to the criminal court.[1]The bench was headed by Counselor Ahmed
Mohamed Halawa with members Mohamed Ayman Saddah, Mohamed Samir Al-Tamawy and
Ramy Mohamed Samir.[1]
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An accused inside the court cage, the page picture published with the Assiut sentencing report; no credit given.Photo details
The judgment does not say whether the three-year sentence carries any further penalty such as a fine, or whether it was accompanied by other measures.
No appeal or final outcome is reported; the term is the first-instance sentence of the Ninth Circuit.
The sentence is undated in the account; 8 November 2026 is the publication date and is used as the incident date.
Authorities identified the defendant only by first name and initial (وليد ع); no full name is published.
The laboratory reported that part of the sample was consumed in testing, so the seized weight before analysis may have been slightly more than 2.95 grams.
Only one accessible account of this sentencing was found after searching in Arabic, so no second source corroborates it.
The page picture captioned as an accused inside the court cage carries no credit and is not confirmed to show this defendant, so it is listed only as a link.
The Alexandria Criminal Court sentenced a worker to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment and a EGP 50,000 fine for hashish trafficking. Officers had arrested him in First Ameriya with 400 hashish slabs weighing about 18 kilograms.
The Cairo Criminal Court sentenced a housewife and an unemployed man to 10 years of aggravated imprisonment for possessing hashish and unlicensed weapons with intent to traffic in Helwan. Police arrested the pair after finding 70 grams of hashish, a shotgun, ammunition, a bladed weapon and cash.
Cairo Criminal Court acquitted a 38-year-old man at the retrial of proceedings against his in-absentia sentence of 15 years' aggravated imprisonment and a 50,000-pound fine over eight pieces of hashish weighing 164 grams found in frozen meat at Cairo airport. Investigators said he hid the drugs in his neighbour's bag without her knowledge to smuggle them to an Arab country.
The Ninth Circuit of the Asyut Criminal Court sentenced three defendants from Dronka village to six years of rigorous imprisonment each for forming and running a narcotics trafficking gang. In January 2026 arrests in Dronka, police seized 21 pieces of hashish weighing 19.30 grams from one defendant's home alongside methamphetamine, heroin and tramadol held across the group.