Sohag court gives hashish and firearms trafficker life plus 10 years
The Sohag Criminal Court sentenced a 38-year-old worker to life for possessing nine automatic rifles, a shotgun and other firearms for sale, and gave him 10 more years for trafficking hashish in the Tahta markaz. He was arrested in 2026 after detectives, tipped off by a secret informant, confirmed he sold drugs and guns there, and he admitted the charges.
The Sohag Criminal Court on Sunday sentenced a 38-year-old worker to life
imprisonment for possessing nine automatic rifles, a shotgun and other firearms
for sale.[1]In the same ruling the court gave him 10 years of aggravated
imprisonment for traffickinghashish in the Tahta markaz, a district of Sohag
Governorate in Upper Egypt.[1]
The ruling panel was headed by Judge Hafni Abdel Fattah with judges Khaled
Mohamed El-Sheikh and Ahmed Ali Saqr.[1]Detectives in the Tahta district
received information in 2026 that the man was trafficking firearms and drugs
there, and confirmed it through a secret informant before arresting him.[1]He
was arrested with a quantity of hashish and several automatic and other
firearms, which the account says were intended for sale.[1]He admitted
trafficking drugs and firearms when questioned and was referred to the criminal
court, which issued this ruling.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Charged
1
Prison
life and 10 years
Agency type
Police, Court
Cannabis
Hashish
Activity
Trafficking
Case stage
Sentenced
Sentence
Life imprisonment, Prison
Region
Sohag Governorate
Sources
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The article gives no weight, value or fine for the hashish, which is described only as a quantity of narcotic hashish.
It is not stated whether the two prison terms run consecutively; the 35 years in the headline is the two sentences added together.
No appeal or challenge to the ruling was reported.
The defendant is identified only by the initials A. M. A. and his age.
No separate date for the 2026 arrest or for the trial hearings was given.
Only one source for this ruling was found; no independent account or prosecution statement could be opened.
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.