Student appeals 5-year term over 7 hashish pieces in Sharabia
Cairo's appellate court was to hear a student's appeal against a five-year prison term and EGP 50,000 fine for trafficking hashish with his fugitive brother in Al-Sharabia. Police had stopped him for riding an unlicensed motorcycle the wrong way and found seven hashish pieces, methamphetamine, a shotgun and a blade.
🇪🇬 Al-Sharabia, Cairo · Egypt
Arrested
1
Charged
2
Prison
5 years
Fine
EGP 50,000
Cairo’s appellate felony court was to continue the next day, Wednesday, hearing
a student’s appeal against his first-instance conviction.[1]The
first-instance verdict had punished him with five years in prison and a fine of
50,000 pounds.[1]He is accused of joining his fugitive brother in traffickingnarcotics in the Sharabia area.[1]On 22 October the same court had postponed
that appeal to the 4 November session for pleading.[2]
A Sharabia police officer on patrol to check security saw the defendant riding a
motorcycle without metal plates and driving against traffic.[1]The officer
stopped him, asked about the motorcycle licences, and detained him after he
answered that he had none.[1]Inside his white plastic bag officers found a
shotgun described as a fard khartoush with a live round inside it, a bag holding
seven pieces of hashish, and a cutter blade.[1]A body search then found two
plastic bags containing methamphetamine on him.[1]
When confronted, he admitted possessing the narcotics for trafficking together
with his fugitive brother.[1]The Public Prosecution had referred the accused
Mostafa.A., a student, and his brother Ahmed.A., who is fugitive, to criminal
trial.[1]They were charged with the student’s possession and his brother’s
possession of hashish and methamphetamine for trafficking, plus an unlicensed
fard khartoush with usable ammunition and a cutter blade without legal
justification or professional necessity.[1]
The articles give no separate dates for the street arrest or the first-instance verdict, so 3 November 2026, the submitted page's publication date, is used as the incident date.
No weight was published for the seven hashish pieces, so no cannabis weight can be recorded.
The two bags of methamphetamine are a non-cannabis substance in the same case and are excluded from cannabis figures.
The outcome of the appeal set for 4 November was not yet reported.
Both opened sources are Al Masry Al Youm accounts of the same case and no independent agency statement was found.
The page illustrates the story with an archive image captioned as hashish seizures rather than this event, so no media entry is included.
A foreign national's pretrial detention was renewed for 15 days over six bottles of cannabis oil allegedly hidden in a shampoo parcel mailed from the United States to Cairo airport's cargo village. Customs valued the suspected cannabis oil at about 12 million Egyptian pounds and sealed the parcel under report No. 5 of 2026.
Seven defendants face trial at the Giza Criminal Court over alleged drug trafficking in Badrashin, with lab reports stating 2,120.39 grams of hashish. The same case also involves alleged cocaine, phenethylamine, tramadol and unlicensed firearms.
Cairo's appeals criminal court postponed to 6 December the appeal of a 25-year-old man sentenced to six years' rigorous imprisonment and a 200,000-pound fine for hashish dealing in Azbakeya. Police had seized five large pieces of hashish weighing 506 grams, plus cash and a phone, from his possession.
Egypt's Fund for Combating and Treatment of Addiction tested 3,660 school-bus drivers in several governorates during the first six weeks of the 2026/2027 school year and 22 tested positive, 21 of them for hashish. All 22 were referred to the public prosecution for driving under the influence, and the education ministry was to dismiss any found working in schools.
