Hisham Abdel Aziz was held since 2019 without trial after he was stopped at Cairo airport while traveling for a family vacation, says Qatar-based news agency

More detainees expected to be released ahead of next week's holiday, but thousands more likely to remain locked up on charges like spreading 'false news'

Rights groups say Cairo has stepped up execution campaign and now carries out third-most judicial killings globally

Ramy Shaath travels to France after 2.5 years in detention; was accused of having links to Muslim Brotherhood

Islamist movement activists convicted in trial relating to 2013 mass killing by security forces at pro-Morsi Islamist sit-in

Samy Abu Zaid, who worked for satirical TV program, was arrested in 2018 and held without trial

Alaa and Gamal Mubarak, the latter of whom was seen as one-time heir apparent to the former leader, had been accused of stock manipulation; court also clears 6 others

Military court had sentenced Sami Annan to 9 years in prison for saying he would run against President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi

Since her father's death, Huda Nasrallah, a Christian, has demanded an equal share of property left to her two brothers; Islamic inheritance laws favor male heirs