Cairo man jailed 6 years, fined for hashish in Basatin
Cairo Criminal Court sentenced a man to six years of rigorous imprisonment and a 10,000-pound fine for hashish possession and trafficking in Al-Basatin. Police arrested him in an ambush after a tip-off, seizing hashish and strox with cash and two phones.
🇪🇬 Al-Basatin, Cairo · Egypt
Arrested
1
Prison
6 years
Fine
EGP 10,000
The Cairo Criminal Court sentenced one man to six years of rigorous imprisonment
and a 10,000-Egyptian-pound fine for possessing drugs and trafficking in them in
Al-Basatin.[1] A chemical-laboratory report found that a seized bag held brown
pieces that tested as hashish, which the report described as listed in the first
schedule of the anti-drugs law.[1]
Cairo Security Directorate officers opened the case after receiving information
and investigation findings indicating that a person was holding drugs and
trafficking in them.[1] After further investigation and information-gathering,
officers identified the accused and prepared the necessary ambushes before Cairo
Security Directorate forces arrested him.[1] A search of the man found a bag
containing hashish and strox, along with a sum of money and two mobile phones.[1]
Officers said the man admitted when confronted that he held the seized items for
profit and trafficking.[1] He said the seized money came from sales proceeds
and that he used the mobile phones to make contact with his customers easier.[1] Police then completed the required legal procedures in the case.[1]
No weight, quantity or estimated value was published for the hashish, so no cannabis quantity can be recorded.
The article gives no separate date for the arrest or sentence; 3 November 2026 is its publication date and is used as the incident date.
The defendant was not named in the article.
Strox was reported alongside the hashish, but no separate weight was published, so no cannabis quantity can be separated and strox is not counted in cannabis figures.
Only one accessible source for this event was found after searching in Arabic.
The page photo caption only repeats the headline and does not establish that it shows this seizure, so no media entry is included.
Sohag Criminal Court sentenced a 60-year-old farm worker identified as H.M. to life imprisonment for trafficking hashish alongside methamphetamine and tramadol and for unlicensed possession of an automatic rifle in Al-Asirat. The case dated to April 2026 charges and ended with the 3 November 2026 life sentence.
The Sohag Criminal Court sentenced a worker to six years of aggravated imprisonment and a 100,000-pound fine for trafficking that included hashish in Second Sohag. Police arrested him in 2026 with a quantity of drugs after a tip from a secret source, and he confessed before referral to court.
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.
Giza Criminal Court sentenced a Warraq police-station buffet worker described as a student to six months with labor and a 10,000-pound fine for hashish possession. The court applied leniency after a retrial that replaced a three-year in-absentia term, with 7.09 grams in nine pieces confirmed by laboratory analysis.