The Interior Ministry will appeal two court rulings against minister Mohamed Ibrahim, a security source at the ministry said on Monday.

The court ruling was made in absentia, the source added.

Earlier today, a Cairo criminal court sentenced Ibrahim to two years in prison for failing to implement a court verdict that was in favor of political detainees.

The court also fined Ibrahim 101 Egyptian pounds for each unreleased detainee and ordered his removal from his post as interior minister, a post he assumed in January 2013.

The court ruling can be suspended upon paying of 2,000 EGP as bail.

Two former political prisoners have filed a lawsuit against the Interior Minister for not paying them compensation worth 25,000 Egyptian pounds for each, on account of being wrongfully detained.