60-year-old farm worker gets life term in Sohag hashish case
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.
🇪🇬 Al-Asirat, Sohag Governorate · Egypt
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Sohag Criminal Court sentenced a 60-year-old farm worker to life imprisonment
for drug trafficking and unlicensed possession of a firearm and ammunition in
Al-Asirat district.[1] The defendant was identified only as H.M., a
60-year-old agricultural worker.[1] The court passed the life term on 3
November 2026 after examining the case file referred by the prosecution.[1]
Prosecutors charged him with possessing methamphetamine, hashish and tramadol
for trafficking outside the cases permitted by law.[1] The narcotics charge
also covered an unlicensed rifled automatic rifle and eight rounds for use in
that weapon.[1] A third account confirms the rifle was an automatic weapon
held with eight rounds without a licence.[2]
The case began in April 2026, when the Public Prosecution opened the
investigation and then referred the defendant to the Sohag Criminal Court.[2]
The same account confirms the court convicted the 60-year-old farm worker and
imposed life imprisonment for trafficking and unlicensed weapons possession in
Al-Asirat.[2]
No weight, quantity or valuation was published for the hashish, so no cannabis weight is recorded.
The methamphetamine and tramadol are mentioned only to explain the mixed case and are excluded from cannabis figures.
No separate hearing date was given beyond the reports' statement that the court ruled today, so 3 November 2026, the publication date, is used as the incident date.
No arrest date, seizure inventory or defendant full name was published beyond the initials H.M.
The pages carry only an archival illustration captioned as an archive detention image, not a photo of this case, so no media entry is listed.
The three Arabic accounts share the same prosecution wording and add little independent detail.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in تفصيلة: A second account lists the same three substances as methamphetamine, hashish and tramadol held for trafficking.
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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.
Qena Criminal Court sentenced a worker to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment and fined him EGP 100,000 for possessing hashish, methamphetamine and an automatic weapon. He had been arrested in Dandarah village in January 2026 in case No. 747 Kolli Qena.