Egypt: woman worker jailed six years over 9.35 kg of hashish in Badr
The New Cairo Criminal Court sentenced a woman employed as a worker to six years of aggravated imprisonment for holding hashish for sale in Cairo's Badr police district. A police detective found 125 pieces of hashish, cash and a mobile phone when he searched her belongings at a security checkpoint on 22 April 2026.
🇪🇬 Badr police district, Cairo · Egypt
- Arrested
- 1
- Charged
- 1
- Cannabis
- 9.35 kg
- Prison
- 6 years
The New Cairo Criminal Court, sitting in the Fifth Settlement, sentenced a woman
described as a worker to six years of aggravated imprisonment for holding
hashish for sale in the Badr police district.[1] Presiding judge Wagih Hamza
Shaqweir led the panel, with judges Yasser Mohamed Youssef, Sameh Abdel Ghani
al-Antabli and Sherif Sami Ali al-Saeed.[1] The referral order said she held
the hashish, without legal authorisation, on 22 April 2026 in the same district.[1]
A detective from the Badr police station was on duty at a security checkpoint in
the district when he saw her looking suspicious and asked to search her
belongings; she allowed him to.[1] He found 125 brown pieces of hashish, a sum
of money and a mobile phone.[1] She admitted holding the drugs for sale, said
the money came from her dealing and that she used the phone to contact
customers, the officer told the court.[2]
A laboratory report examined 30 of the 125 pieces and confirmed they were
hashish resin listed in the schedules of Egypt’s anti-drug law.[2] Al-Masry
Al-Youm puts the weight of the 125 pieces at 9 kg 350 g.[2]
Sources
- المشدد 6 سنوات لعاملة بتهمة الاتجار بالمخدرات في مدينة بدر. جريدة الدستور, 1 November 2026. In Arabic.
- السجن المشدد 6 سنوات لعاملة بتهمة الاتجار بالمخدرات في مدينة بدر. المصري اليوم, 1 November 2026. In Arabic.
Open questions the AI reported
- Neither article gives a separate date for the verdict; 1 November 2026, the publication date of both accounts, is used here.
- Neither report names the defendant or gives her age, and neither gives the amount of cash seized or an estimated value for the hashish.
- The 9 kg 350 g figure appears in a sentence about the 30 pieces sent to the laboratory, and it is not clear whether it covers the whole seizure or only the sample.
- No fine, defence lawyer or appeal is reported.
- Both pages illustrate the case with archive images, a court gavel at Al-Masry Al-Youm and an uncaptioned picture of a woman at Dostor, so no photo of this event is recorded.
- The same court panel issued a separate six-year sentence in another Badr case with 125 pieces on the same day; the accounts differ in the arrest date, the number of defendants and the weight, and the two are recorded separately.