Four get 6 years for shabu and hashish trafficking in Sohag
Sohag Criminal Court sentenced four men to six years of rigorous imprisonment each and fined each 100,000 Egyptian pounds for trafficking shabu, methamphetamine and hashish in Al-Balina. Police arrested the four in 2026 with drugs prepared for sale after a tip-off, and the men admitted possession for trafficking.
🇪🇬 Al-Balina markaz, Sohag Governorate · Egypt
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Arrested
4
Charged
4
Prison
6 years
Fine
EGP 100,000
The Sohag Criminal Court sentenced four defendants to six years of rigorous
imprisonment for drug trafficking in Al-Balina markaz in Sohag Governorate.[1][2][3]The court fined each of the four defendants 100,000 Egyptian pounds.[1][2][3]The
trafficking conviction covered shabu, methamphetamine essence and hashish, with
hashish as the cannabis component recorded here.[1][2][3]
The case dates to 2026, when investigations by detectives at the Balina station
indicated that the four men were trading and promoting drugs in the district.[1][2]The men were identified only by the initials M. F., described as a worker,
A. A., M. A. and A. M.[1]After legal procedures were completed and further
checks confirmed information received from a secret source, security forces
arrested the defendants with a quantity of drugs prepared for sale.[1][2][3]
When confronted, the defendants admitted that they possessed the drugs for the
purpose of trafficking.[1][2]Authorities then completed the required legal
procedures and referred the case to the criminal court, which issued the
sentence.[1][2]
No weight was published for the hashish portion, so no cannabis quantity is recorded and the shabu and methamphetamine are excluded from cannabis figures.
The article gives no separate date for the sentence hearing; 4 November 2026 is its publication date and is used as the incident date.
The case is dated only to 2026, with no separate arrest date published.
The defendants were identified only by initials, so full names are not recorded.
The 100,000-pound fine was imposed on each man; figures records the per-person amount rather than a combined total.
Only one accessible source for this event was found after searching in Arabic.
The page photo is captioned only with the headline and is not established to show this arrest, seizure or hearing, so no media entry is included.
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