Cairo court jails three for six years over 9.5 kg of hashish in Badr
The New Cairo Criminal Court sentenced three defendants to six years of aggravated imprisonment for holding 125 pieces of hashish, weighing 9,504 grams, for sale in Cairo's Badr police district. Police found the hashish in a cardboard box in their car on 1 March 2026 after an officer stopped the driver for going the wrong way.
🇪🇬 Badr police district, Cairo · Egypt
- Arrested
- 3
- Charged
- 3
- Cannabis
- 9.504 kg
- Prison
- 6 years
The New Cairo Criminal Court, sitting in the Fifth Settlement, sentenced three
defendants to six years of aggravated imprisonment for holding hashish for sale
in the Badr police district.[1] The court issued the verdict on Sunday 1
November 2026.[2] The referral order said the three held hashish without legal
authorisation on 1 March 2026 in the same district.[1]
A Roads and Ports Security officer posted in the district saw the first
defendant driving a car against traffic with the other two beside him, stopped
them and searched the vehicle.[1] In a cardboard box inside the car, the
officer found 125 brown pieces of hashish, a cannabis resin.[1]
The defendants admitted holding the drugs for sale, and investigators said the
money seized from them came from their dealing and that they used mobile phones
to contact customers.[1]
Sources
- السجن المشدد 6 سنوات لـ3 متهمين بحيازة 125 قطعة حشيش في بدر. المصري اليوم, 1 November 2026. In Arabic.
- السجن 6 سنوات لـ3 متهمين لحيازة 125 قطعة حشيش في بدر. الأيام المصرية, 1 November 2026. In Arabic.
Open questions the AI reported
- The reports name none of the three defendants and give no ages or home addresses.
- No fine, estimated street value or other penalty beyond the six-year prison term was reported.
- Neither report gives a separate hearing date; the Al Ayam account says the ruling was issued "today, Sunday", and 1 November 2026 is the publication date of both reports.
- Al Ayam Al-Misriya carries the same court-brief wording as Al-Masry Al-Youm and adds no independent reporting.
- No photograph of the defendants, the drugs or the hearing was published; the Al-Masry page carries only an archive picture of a court gavel.
- No appeal or later step in the case is reported.
- Left out, as its quotation was not found in المصري اليوم: The public prosecution said the seized material weighed 9,504 grams, and that samples taken from it tested as hashish listed in the first schedule of the anti-drug law.