The Cairo Criminal Court sentenced two unemployed men to one year in prison for using hashish in the Heliopolis district of Cairo.[1] The chemical laboratory reported that the seized material was a transparent plastic bag holding brown pieces that tested as hashish, listed in Schedule 1 of the drug-control law.[1]

Cairo Security Directorate officers arrested the two men, both with criminal records, while a security patrol was passing through the Heliopolis police-station district.[1] The men looked flustered when they saw the force and tried to run, but officers chased and detained them.[1] A search found hashish on them, and when confronted they admitted holding the drug for use rather than sale.[1]

In its written reasoning, the court said the forensic report had settled the nature of the material and proved it was a prohibited drug.[2] The court found that holding the drug was established because the two men had control of it knowingly and willingly, and that their admission of possession for use was supported by the seizure and the laboratory findings.[2]