Zamalek president Mortada Mansour has been sentenced to one month in jail for verbally insulting Al Ahly president Mahmoud El-Khatib.
Al Ahly chairman Mahmoud El-Khatib had filed two defamation cases against Mortada Mansour for the latter’s insulting comments back in 2021.
El-Khatib had previously claimed that Mansour was taking advantage of his parliamentary immunity, which the Zamalek’s president misused.
However, Mansour had lost the Parliamentary elections in late 2020, meaning his immunity had been lifted starting from January 2021.
Having lost two defamation lawsuits brought to court by El-Khatib last August, Mansour was initially sentenced to a year behind bars, before the court lessened the sentence to just one month.
Mansour appealed against the decision; however, he lost his appeal and the one-month sentence has been upheld, meaning the Zamalek president is expected to be transferred to prison within hours.
Mansour reacted to the news on social media, stating: “Finally, the president of the Al Ahly jailed the president of the Zamalek for the first time in the history of the sport.
“The appeal has been refused, pending the decision of the heavenly judge Almighty God. Don’t worry about me, lions are not afraid of death, and they are not afraid of being imprisoned either.
“The plan was to overthrow me in the elections by fraudulent means, before that I was secluded from the Zamalek presidency for four years, after which the board of directors was dissolved, and the fourth step was to send me to prison.
“This step got delayed, praise God. Egyptians and Zamalek fans now believe it. I had to completely disappear from the political, sports, and media scene at any cost,” he added.
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