The Appeals Court adjourned Tuesday the trial of Salafist leader Hazem Salah Abu Ismail to April 12, accused of forging his mother's nationality to run for presidency, Al Bawaba News reported. Abu Ismail had appealed a 7-year prison sentence issued against him by the Cairo Criminal Court last April. Investigations revealed that Abu Ismail had forged papers submitted to the presidential elections committee in 2012, claiming that his mother, a carrier of the U.S. citizenship, had no other passport than the Egyptian one. Under Egypt's election rules, the candidate's parents must be Egyptian and not be holders of any other citizenship.
