Cairo court jails foreign woman 3 years, husband 1 year over airport drugs
The Cairo Criminal Court sentenced a foreign woman to three years in prison and her husband to one year of imprisonment with work, fining each 10,000 Egyptian pounds, in a case that included possessing hashish for consumption alongside cocaine and amphetamine smuggling. The court acquitted the two other defendants.
🇪🇬 Cairo International Airport, Cairo · Egypt
Charged
4
Convicted
2
Acquitted
2
Sentenced
2
Agencies
Cairo Criminal Court, General Administration for Drug Control +2
The Cairo Criminal Court sentenced a foreign woman to three years in prison and
her husband to one year of imprisonment with work, fining each of them 10,000
Egyptian pounds.[1]The court acquitted the two other defendants.[1]The
panel was headed by Counsellor Sobhy Abdel Meguid, with Counsellors Walid Anwar,
Mohamed Hosny and Ibrahim Mahmoud Helmy as members.[1]
The public prosecution referred four foreign defendants, aged 36, 31, 26 and 30,
to the criminal court.[1]The couple were charged with attempting to smuggle
cocaine and amphetamine without a written permit and with possessing cocaine,
amphetamine, methamphetamine and hashish for consumption.[1]A chemical
laboratory analysis of samples taken from the couple showed they had used
cocaine, amphetamine, methamphetamine and hashish.[1]
Security officers at Cairo airport searched the woman as she entered the airport
hall after suspecting her.[1]The search found two rolls of cocaine and 178
amphetamine tablets in her possession, along with four mobile phones.[1]The
chemical laboratory found the two rolls weighed 184 grams of cocaine and
confirmed that the 178 tablets were amphetamine.[1]Confronted with the seized
items, the couple admitted possessing the drugs for consumption.[1]Investigations said the couple had obtained the drugs from the third and fourth
defendants.[1]The prosecution charged the third and fourth defendants with
possessing cocaine and amphetamine for trafficking.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Charged
4
Convicted
2
Acquitted
2
Sentenced
2
Prison
3 years for the woman; 1 year with work for the husband
Fine
EGP 10,000
Agencies
Cairo Criminal Court; General Administration for Drug Control, Cairo airport branch; Cairo airport passenger security department; Public Prosecution
Agency type
Court, Police, Prosecutor
Cannabis
Hashish
Activity
Possession, Use
Charges
attempting to smuggle cocaine and amphetamine without a written permit; possessing cocaine, amphetamine, methamphetamine and hashish for consumption
No date is given for the verdict; 12 November 2026 is the article's publication date and is used as the incident date.
No weight was published for the hashish; the 184 grams of cocaine and 178 amphetamine tablets are not cannabis and are excluded from the cannabis figures.
The article gives no date for the airport search or for the defendants' arrest, and does not say whether they were held in custody during the trial.
The report does not say which charge produced the three-year and one-year terms, or whether the hashish possession count contributed to them.
The court acquitted the third and fourth defendants, and no reason for the acquittal is reported.
No appeal or later step in the case is reported.
The account rests on a single outlet's report of the verdict, with no court statement or second outlet found.
The defendants are identified only by initials and ages, and their nationalities are not named.
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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.