Three sentenced to death by hanging in Sohag hashish case
Sohag Criminal Court sentenced three defendants to death by hanging after convicting them of possessing hashish for trafficking and holding a scalpel without lawful excuse in Maragha district. The case dated to November 2025 charges and was decided on 4 November 2026, with case expenses and confiscation of the seized items ordered.
🇪🇬 Maragha district, Sohag Governorate · Egypt
Charged
3
Prison
death by hanging
Sohag Criminal Court sentenced three defendants to death by hanging for hashishtrafficking in Maragha district.[1]The court convicted them of possessing
hashish with intent to traffic and of holding a scalpel without lawful
justification.[1]It also ordered the three to pay the case expenses and
confiscated the seized items.[1]
The defendants were identified only by their initials as M.A., 35, a holder of
an industrial diploma, M.M., 25, also a holder of an industrial diploma, and
A.A., 41, who is unemployed.[1]Prosecutors said the case dated to November
2025, when the three were charged with possessing hashish for trafficking and
holding the cutting tool.[1]The case papers said they held the drugs to
promote and trade them and kept a cutting implement without lawful excuse in
Maragha district of Sohag Governorate.[1]The bench was headed by Hamdi Abdel
Aziz with Mohy Abu Kreisha and Amr Makki, with clerks Taha Hussein and Maged
Amin.[1]
After investigations ended, the Public Prosecution referred the case to the
Sohag Criminal Court, which heard it and imposed the three death sentences.[1]The court issued this ruling on 4 November 2026.[1]
No weight, quantity or valuation of the hashish was published, so no cannabis weight is recorded.
The article gives no separate sentencing date beyond its 4 November 2026 publication timestamp, so that date is used as the incident date.
The defendants were identified only by initials with ages and occupations, not full names.
No arrest date, seizure inventory or detention details were published.
Whether the death sentences are final or subject to appeal was not reported.
Only one accessible source for this ruling was found after searching in Arabic and English.
The page image is captioned only as the Sohag Criminal Court and repeats the headline, which does not establish that it shows this hearing, so no media entry is included.
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