Three get 15 years each for hashish trafficking in Asyut
The Asyut Criminal Court sentenced three men to 15 years of aggravated imprisonment each and fined each 50,000 pounds for hashish trafficking and firearms possession in Nazlet Abdallah. Police seized hashish slabs and 17 large hashish pieces from the men and their car after a chase in which an officer was injured.
🇪🇬 Nazlet Abdallah, Second Asyut, Asyut · Egypt
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Arrested
3
Charged
3
Prison
15 years
Fine
EGP 50,000
The Tenth Circuit of the Asyut Criminal Court sentenced three men to 15 years of
aggravated imprisonment each and fined each of them 50,000 Egyptian pounds for
possessing drugs, firearms and ammunition after a security checkpoint in Nazlet
Abdallah in the Second Asyut district.[1][2][3] The report was published on 3
November 2026.[1] The panel was headed by Judge Ahmed Abdel-Tawab Saleh with
Judge Romil Shehata Amin as member, with prosecutor Ahmed Fathi present and Adel
Abu El-Reesh and Zakaria Hafez as court secretaries.[1] The case was filed as
No. 2332 of 2026, Second Asyut felonies, after a patrol in Nazlet Abdallah
stopped a private car driven by 20-year-old Khaled M. with Mohamed A. and Ayman
S. aboard for a criminal check.[1][2][3]
When officers tried to stop the car, the driver reversed at high speed, one of
the men threw a shotgun from the car, the driver rammed a plainclothes policeman
and injured him, then drove the wrong way to flee.[1] Police chased the car
until it hit a concrete block beside the road, then overpowered and arrested the
three men.[1] Searching the first man found a pistol, a quantity of hashish
essence hidden in his clothes and 1,400 pounds, while the second man carried a
large slab of hashish and a mobile phone and the third carried a large slab of
the same drug.[1][3] Searching the car found 17 large pieces of hashish, a
cannabis resin.[1][2][3]
Confronted with the seizures, the men admitted possessing the drugs for
trafficking and the firearms and ammunition for self-defence.[1] The court
treated the hashish, the cannabis product in this case, together with the
weapons as the basis for the trafficking convictions.[1]
No weight was published for the hashish; only a quantity, two large slabs and 17 large pieces were described, so no cannabis weight is recorded.
The article gives no separate date for the roadside arrest; 3 November 2026 is the publication date and, with the verdict described as issued on Tuesday, is used as the sentence date.
The three defendants are identified only by initials, with an age given only for the first man, so full names are not recorded.
The 1,400 pounds and mobile phones are reported without saying the cash was drug proceeds, and no cannabis-only valuation was published.
The 50,000-pound fine was imposed on each man; figures records the per-person amount rather than a combined total.
Firearms and ammunition were part of the same conviction and are mentioned only to explain the mixed case; no separate firearms penalty is recorded.
Only one accessible source was found for this event, and its single photograph is captioned only as a court panel and is not established to show this hearing or seizure, so no media entry is listed.
The page's single image is captioned only as drugs and is not established to show this seizure, so no media entry is listed.
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