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Court upholds sentence against activist Asmaa Mahfouz to one year in jail plus fine Asmaa Mahfouz sentenced to prison and fine accused of assaulting civil servant for his support of the Supreme Council of the Armed forces
Ain Shams Misdemeanors Court upheld on Tuesday the sentence handed to activist Asmaa Mahfouz of one year in prison plus LE2000 fine. Mahfouz is accused of assaulting civil servant Abdel Aziz Fahmy. On 7 March 2012 Mahfouz was sentenced in absentia but the court ruling was appealed. The former April 6 Youth Movement member, Mahfouz, denies having ever met Fahmy. She claims that the case is politically motivated and designed to ruin her reputation as an activist. Fahmy on the other hand claimed Mahfouz attacked him for his support of the Supreme Council of the Armed Force (SCAF), to which she is opposed. Mahfouz had told Al-Ahram daily in March that Fahmy is the same man who previously filed cases against political activists Alaa Abdel-Fattah and Ahmed Abou-Doma. On the eve of the January 25 Revolution Mahfouz made a video that went viral on YouTube calling on Egyptians to take to the streets. The female political activist accuses the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) of being behind the case.