(MENAFN) A top Egyptian court has upheld a ruling halting a plan to transfer two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia.
In detail, the High Administrative Court rejected an appeal by the government against a lower court's decision to stop it handing over Tiran and Sanafir.
Cheers erupted as the judge delivered the verdict, saying the government had failed to provide evidence that the islands were originally Saudi.
The transfer deal, signed last April, sparked rare protests in Egypt.
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