On Sunday, the Egyptian club Zamalek published a statement confirming that the Cairo Economic Court of Appeal issued a final ruling this morning to stop the implementation of the prison sentence and abolish it, once morest club president Mortada Mansour.
Last April, the Court of First Instance issued a ruling to imprison Mansour for one year, following a lawsuit filed by Al-Ahly Club President Mahmoud Al-Khatib for insulting him, on Mansour’s personal page.
And according to a statement by Zamalek Club, on Sunday, Mansour submitted an official copy of the Public Funds Prosecution’s investigations into these facts and argued that the case was not permissible because a decision had been issued by the attorney general that there was no reason to file a case.
The Zamalek statement said that some state officials, “to preserve the stability of society and not to cause sedition between the fans of the two big clubs,” offered Mansour and Al-Khatib to end the dispute with a joint statement affirming their respect for the other club, and “Counsellor Mortada Mansour welcomed this initiative (..) However, Captain Mahmoud Al-Khatib embarrassed everyone and announced that he rejected it.
And Al-Ahly announced in an official statement, last April, that its president, Mahmoud Al-Khatib, had obtained a ruling from the Economic Court to imprison the president of Zamalek club Mortada Mansour, a famous lawyer, for two years, on charges of insulting and defamation.
Al-Khatib filed two lawsuits before the court last year, accusing the president of Zamalek of transgression, insult and slander through the media.
The cases brought by the president of Al-Ahly Club, and others, once morest Mansour arouse wide interest in Egypt, given the personalities of the plaintiff and the defendant.
Al-Khatib, the retired football star, had filed lawsuits once morest Mansour, accusing him of insulting, slandering and disturbing social media.
According to the Cairo newspaper, Al-Shorouk, the courts are considering more than one insult and defamation lawsuit filed by Al-Khatib and members of Al-Ahly’s board of directors once morest Mansour.
It is noteworthy that Mansour, 69, has held the presidency of Zamalek since 2014 until today, with the exception of one year during which his council was dissolved in November 2020, before returning to the presidency of the “White Castle” by winning the presidential elections that took place last February.
