Thursday 08/January/2026 – 03:46 PM
The New Cairo Criminal Court bench adjourned the trial session of Sarah Khalifa and 27 other defendants in the major drug case for recess.
Sarah Khalifa performs the afternoon prayer
The break session witnessed Sarah Khalifa performing the afternoon prayer inside the dock during the break.
The session also witnessed the defense case of Sarah Khalifa’s brother, who began his case to the court: According to the forensic report, my client is innocent and all his confessions were under duress, and I demand an investigation into this matter.
The defense returned and argued that the confession allegedly issued by the accused to the seventh accused in the courtroom was invalid because it was obtained under the influence of physical coercion.
He argued that the investigations were invalid due to the obvious shortcomings that marred them and the lack of impartiality in the investigations because they did not verify the evidence presented by the accused and his defense during the investigations. The investigation procedures came as an expression of the investigation authority’s adoption of the accusation story from the beginning of the investigations, which is the story that came in the arrest report and in the investigation report without examining the psychological evidence presented by the accused and his defense, which confirmed the lack of investigations and the arrest of the seventh accused before obtaining the permission of the Public Prosecution, which violates the rights of the seventh accused guaranteed by the law and the constitution and is also wasted. The law of acquittal of the accused, which results in the invalidity of the procedures for arresting the accused, the investigations, the referral of the accused, and the invalidity of the referral order.
