Worker jailed 10 years in Giza for hashish trafficking and an unlicensed firearm
Giza criminal court sentenced a worker to 10 years of aggravated imprisonment for trafficking in hashish and possessing a firearm without a licence in the Manshiyat al-Qanatir police district. The prosecution referred him to the criminal court after its investigation ended.
Giza criminal court sentenced a worker to 10 years of aggravated imprisonment
for trafficking in hashish and for possessing a firearm without a licence in the
Manshiyat al-Qanatir police district.[1]A second Arabic account of the ruling
names the same court, offence, term and police district.[2]
The prosecution charged him with holding hashish for sale and promotion, and
with possessing a firearm without a permit from the competent authorities,
contrary to the weapons and ammunition law.[1]The public prosecution referred
him to the criminal court after finishing its investigation and asked for the
penalty the law prescribes.[1]The court reached its verdict after hearing the
case and the accusations set out in its papers.[2]
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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.