An Islamist group calling itself Agnad Misr, or Soldiers of Egypt, has claimed responsibility for the blasts that killed a senior police officer at Cairo University on Wednesday.

The Muslim Brotherhood issued a statement Tuesday expressing surprise at the British prime minister's order that the group be investigated on suspicion of planning radical activities in Britain.

Muslim Brotherhood activist Abdel Rahman Ezz has described the three blasts that broke out outside Cairo University on Wednesday as ‘suicide attacks against (occupation) police and military.’

The Criminal Court of Shubra el-Kheima adjourned the trial Mohamed Badie, the former Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood organization, to April 8, in the case known as “Qalyub Highway.”

Ibrahim Mounir, secretary of the Muslim Brotherhood’s international wing, said “investigations by England over the Brotherhood will not convict the group.”

The refusal of the Coptic Orthodox Church to accept the request submitted by a number Coptic citizens to be excluded from the membership of the church raised a state of controversy over the influence of the church on the lives of its people in Egypt. The request came due to the refusal of the church to provide them with the right of the second marriage.

Dozens of students were injured in the vicinity of the Defense Ministry as security forces dispersed them with tear gas.

Defence lawyers for the Muslim Brotherhood's Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie and 50 of the group's leaders withdrew from the first session of a trial on Tuesday in which the defendants are accused of orchestrating violence in the immediate aftermath of the dispersal of a pro-Brotherhood protest camp in Cairo last August.

There are new efforts to find political solution for the current situation in Egypt, National Alliance to Support Legitimacy member Mohamed Ali Beshr said, according to Anadolu Agency Monday.

Security Forces arrested Monday 10 Al-Azhar University students, allegedly affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, who are accused of setting fire to three vehicles during campus demonstrations.

Speculation around the death of a Christian young woman at a Muslim Brotherhood protest in Ain Shams last Friday are wide ranging, but despite numerous media reports there is still little known about who killed Mary Sameh George.

A number of leaders of the political alliance supporting deposed president Mohamed Morsy have stressed that the group would boycott the presidential elections slated for May, though an official decision has yet to be reached.

Hamas denied reports that three of its members were detained in Egypt while planning to assassinate Field Marshal Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, reported the Anadolu News Agency Sunday.

A group of Egyptian Copts dubbed the "Coalition of Coptic Egypt" announced in a press conference Saturday its support for former Defense Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi bid's for presidency.

Egyptian police have arrested members of the "Ansar al-Sharia in Ard al-Kenana" organisation which has recently carried out several terrorist attacks targeting security personnel, the interior minister said on Sunday in a televised press conference.

Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat ordered on Sunday the referral of seven men accused of killing a policeman to the criminal court.

A retired military colonel was shot dead by a masked group of assailants in Ismailia, near a desert highway connecting the Suez Canal city and Cairo.

The committee tasked with managing the Muslim Brotherhood’s funds decided on Thursday to seize the assets of five additional associations, Youm7 reported.

Shubra Criminal Court adjourned Thursday the trial of Mohamed Badie, the supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, in the “Qalyub Highway” case to April 2.

Hundreds of Al-Azhar University Brotherhood students staged marches on Thursday to protest against Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announcing his candidacy for the presidential elections, chanting slogans against the military.

Amid the controversy over the past days following the death penalty of more than 500 Muslim Brotherhood members, the Islamist organization is now seeking international support for alleged human rights abuses against its members by the current regime.