(MENAFN- Daily News Egypt) The Nasr City Appeal Court upheld the year-long imprisonment ruling Tuesday given in absentia to television presenter Ahmed Moussa for defaming activist Esraa Abdel Fattah.
Moussa lost the case after filing an appeal, according to Abdel Fattah's lawyer Ramy Ghanem. The presenter, criticised for being a government propagandist, was also fined EGP 15,000.
Mousa did not attend the session, which the court considered an insult, said Ghanem.
Moussa can, however, appeal the decision, but only upon his arrest, as he still remains free.
On 10 December 2014, the Nasr City Misdemeanour Court sentenced Moussa to six months' imprisonment with hard labour, or an EGP 5,000 bail for insulting a lawyer.
Moussa was also ordered to pay a fine of EGP 10,000, and another EGP 10,000 as compensation to Tarek Al-Awady, the lawyer of Zamalek SC's fan group, the Ultras White Knights. He had described Al-Awady on air as a "fugitive", accusing him of breaking into a police station, stealing a police vehicle and torching it in September.
Moussa, who hosts a programme on Sada Al-Balad television channel, was charged with spreading false news and defaming Al-Awady.
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