Unemployed Cairo man jailed 15 years over 100 g of hashish and resisting police
Cairo Criminal Court sentenced an unemployed man to 15 years of rigorous imprisonment and a 200,000-Egyptian-pound fine for trafficking hashish, carrying a folding knife and resisting officers during his arrest in Al-Salam. Police said they found 100 grams of hashish, 20 tramadol tablets, cash and a phone on him after a tip that he was selling drugs in the district.
Cairo Criminal Court sentenced an unemployed man to 15 years of rigorous
imprisonment and a 200,000-Egyptian-pound fine.[1]The court convicted him of
traffickingnarcotics, possessing a bladed weapon without a legal justification
and resisting security force members while they tried to arrest him in Al-Salam.[1]Police found hashish, 20 tramadol tablets, a folding knife, cash and a
mobile phone in his possession.[1]
Police reports say he was arrested in a series of ambushes after Al-Salam police
station received a tip that he was selling drugs, and that he was a repeat
offender carrying 100 grams of hashish.[2]The chemical laboratory report
confirmed that the brown pieces in a clear plastic bag were hashish, listed in
Schedule 1 of the drug-control law.[1]The court said his phone was used to
contact clients and the cash he held was the proceeds of sales.[2]
The court said the intent to trade drugs is established when a defendant’s will
is directed at circulating and promoting them to others.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
1
Charged
1
Sentenced
1
Cannabis
100 g
Prison
15 years
Fine
EGP 200,000
Agencies
Cairo Criminal Court; مديرية أمن القاهرة
Agency type
Court, Police
Cannabis
Hashish (100 g)
Activity
Trafficking, Possession, Sale
Setting
Street or public place
Charges
possessing narcotics for trafficking; possessing a bladed weapon without legal justification; resisting security force members during arrest
فيتوvetogate.comARالسجن 15 سنة لعاطل بتهمة مقاومة السلطات وحيازة المخدرات في السلام
Open questions the AI reported
The court gave the verdict on 28 October 2026, the date of the Veto report; the submitted 9 November article reports the court's written reasons and gives no separate date for the verdict.
No weight for the hashish appears in the written reasons quoted by the submitted article; the 100-gram figure comes from the earlier Veto report on the verdict.
The defendant is described only as an unemployed man with a criminal record and is not named.
The court's reasons give no date for the arrest or the ambush, and the sources do not say how long he was held before trial.
The Alexandria Criminal Court sentenced a worker to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment and a EGP 50,000 fine for hashish trafficking. Officers had arrested him in First Ameriya with 400 hashish slabs weighing about 18 kilograms.
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.