Journalist sentenced to jail for defamation

Nourhan Elsebahy
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Minister of Justice Ahmed El Zend (DNE File Photo)

The Giza Criminal Court sentenced a journalist at “Sout Al-Oma” newspaper to two years in prison and fined editor-in-chief Abdel Halim Qandil EGP 20,000 for defamation against Minister of Justice Ahmed El-Zind.

The Judges Club filed a complaint against journalist Mohamed Saad Khatab and Abdel Halim Qandil, accusing them of defamation by publishing an article. The article accused El-Zind, during his presidency tenor at the Judges Club and first deputy of the club Abed Allah Fathy, of receiving bribes from companies that implement housing projects through the club.

El-Zind filed the complaint in 2014, accusing the newspaper of publishing false news in an article called “El-Zind failed to profit his son with land bought from the Judges Club in Port Said”.

 

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Nourhan El-Sebahy is a journalist at DNE’s politics section. Just before joining DNE’s staff, she was working as a journalist at El-Watan newspaper “an Egyptian daily independent newspaper”. She holds a Master’s Degree of Journalism and Mass Communication from the American University in Cairo (AUC). She was awarded by Certificate of honor on the Fourth Scientific Day Celebration in 2013 and Graduate Student’s honor at AUC in 2012.