Cairo - Akram Ali
Asmaa Mahfouz
A court for misdemeanours in Cairo has issued a verdict in absentia against the political activist Asmaa Mahfouz, who is to be jailed for one year and fined $350 for assaulting a citizen called
Abdel Aziz Fahmy.
Asmaa\'s family appealed against the verdict, insisting the assault was fake, as Asmaa: \"has never met Fahmy in her life\". The political activist’s father, Mahfouz Abdel Halim, commented: \"It is impossible to believe that Asmaa assaulted a man of my age. This is an attempt to distort my daughter’s reputation\".
Asmaa said on Twitter: \"This is a never-ending series of attempts to ruin my reputation and knock me out of the political arena. It happened before to other activists, such as Alaa Abd Al-Fattah and Ahmed Douma. I hadn’t even heard of this case until two days before the judgment session\". Asmaa then addressed her opponents by saying: \"Fear God’s judgment, you who are insulting the revolution by blaming it for anything wrong in this country”.
Asmaa\'s family appealed against the verdict, insisting the assault was fake, as Asmaa: \"has never met Fahmy in her life\". The political activist’s father, Mahfouz Abdel Halim, commented: \"It is impossible to believe that Asmaa assaulted a man of my age. This is an attempt to distort my daughter’s reputation\".
Asmaa said on Twitter: \"This is a never-ending series of attempts to ruin my reputation and knock me out of the political arena. It happened before to other activists, such as Alaa Abd Al-Fattah and Ahmed Douma. I hadn’t even heard of this case until two days before the judgment session\". Asmaa then addressed her opponents by saying: \"Fear God’s judgment, you who are insulting the revolution by blaming it for anything wrong in this country”.