An Egyptian appeals court on Monday upheld three-year prison sentences for three prominent activists charged with violating a controversial law restricting protests.
The three, including the founder of the April 6 movement Ahmed Maher, rose to prominence in the 2011 uprising that toppled veteran strongman Hosni Mubarak.

A controversial lawyer and critic of activists who spearheaded Egypt's 2011 uprising announced Sunday he will run for president, in an election expected to be won by the ex-army chief.
Mortada Mansour, who was elected last week as head of Cairo's Zamalek football club, said he was in favor of a "strong state" to enforce the rule of law.

Al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahiri's brother is to stand trial with 67 others for forming a "terrorist group" and plotting attacks after Islamist president Mohammed Morsi's ouster, Egyptian state media reported Sunday.
Mohamed al-Zawahiri was arrested last August, a month after Morsi's ouster by the army, and has been called to go on trial by the state prosecutor.

At least two more people were killed in renewed tribal clashes in southern Egypt on Sunday, after 48 hours of violence that left 23 dead, security officials said.
The fresh violence came despite a beefed-up police presence in Aswan province to end fighting between the Bani Hilal, an Arab tribe, and the Dabudiya, a Nubian family.

Police have sent reinforcements to Egypt's southern province of Aswan after at least 23 people were killed in tribal clashes there, officials said on Saturday.
Long-standing tensions between Bani Hilal tribesmen and the Nubian Dabudiya family erupted after a woman was accosted on Thursday, the interior ministry said.

A court in Egypt has adjourned the murder trial of deposed Islamist president Mohammed Morsi until Sunday, when it will hear "decisive" testimony from senior security officials.
The case is part of a relentless crackdown against Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood movement since the military ousted him on July 3, ending a turbulent single year in office.

Egypt has barred entry to a Lebanese activist who wanted to deliver a petition against a court's death sentences for 529 alleged rioters, an official with the activist's group said Friday.
Wissam Tarif, a member of the U.S.-based Avaaz human rights organization, was detained at Cairo airport for several hours and put on a flight back to Lebanon, said the group's spokesman Sam Barratt.

Egypt said Thursday it has boosted punishment for "terrorist" offenses and expanded the scope of crimes that fall under that category, a day after bombings killed a top police officer.
The legal amendments will come in force when interim president Adly Mansour approves the government-penned draft.

Two bombs targeting security posts near Cairo University exploded in quick succession Wednesday killing a police general, followed by a third blast as police and journalists gathered at the scene.
Witnesses said the blasts sent up a cloud of smoke and dust near the campus, the scene of repeated clashes in the past few months between Islamist students and police.

Egypt's top prosecutor called Tuesday for a probe into funds allegedly received by the only serious rival of ex-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in an upcoming presidential election, sources said.
Public prosecutor Hisham Barakat issued the call after a lawyer filed a complaint about funds that Egyptian businessmen allegedly provided to leftist leader Hamdeen Sabbahi, the judicial sources said.
