Judge Mohammed Nagi Shehata had denied Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste and his two co-workers' request to post bail from terrorism-related charges, Daily Mail said in a report.
Australian Peter Greste, Canadian-Egyptian national Mohamed Fahmy, local Baher Mohamed, are currently being held by the Egyptian government on charges regarding their relations or involvement with the Muslim Brotherhood.
Prosecutors at an Egyptian court claimed that deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Mursi conspired with his group Muslim Brotherhood to bring acts of terrorism in the country, which resulted to many deaths and incarcerations, Gulf Business cited a Reuters report.
Muhammad Morsi, the ousted Egyptian president, will be tried, along with top aides and leading members of the Muslim Brotherhood, for inciting supporters to kill at least 10 opponents outside his palace while presiding in office.
Former Hosni Mubarak, who ruled Egypt for thirty years before being ousted in February 2011, could be released from prison this week, according to his lawyer and judicial sources.
Christian churches in Egypt have been burned to the ground by supporters of Muslim Brotherhood President Mohammed Morsi, and the strong response by security forces to subsequent protest, NewsMax and CNN reported. Protesters tossed firebombs at Mar Gergiss church in Sohag, which has a large Coptic Christian community.
An Egyptian Health Ministry official said that 149 people have been killed and another 874 were injured in clashes between security forces and supporters of the ousted president Mohammed Morsi, the Associated Press reported. The Egyptian police swept in early Wednesday morning with armored vehicles and bulldowers in an effort to clear two encampments of pro-Morsi supporters. 25 were reported killed in Minya province south of the capital and one each in the cities of Alexandria, Assiut and Ban Suef.
Amidst the violent clashes following the ouster of Egyptian president Muhammad Morsi, a 39-year-old Coptic priest was killed in the Sinai Peninsula by gunmen while driving by on a motorbike last week. Mina Aboud Sharween was shot dead in El Arish, the Northern Sinai's provincial capital.
