Wasat Party deputy leader guilty of defaming head of Judges Club
Lawyer and deputy head of the Wasat Party Essam Sultan has been fined LE30,000 and ordered to pay LE10,000 in damages to Ahmed al-Zend, head of the Judges Club, by a Dokki misdemeanors court after it found him guilty of defaming Zend.
Zend brought the case after Sultan published a Facebook status on July 7 that Zend claimed constituted defamation against him.
Sultan is currently being detained on charges of incitement to kidnap, torture, and kill opponents of deposed President Mohamed Morsi in the area around the Rabea al-Adaweya sit-in in Nasr City, forcibly dispersed by police and army forces on August 14.
Wasat Party is a moderate Islamist party founded in 1996 as a splinter group of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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