On Thursday, Nozha Misdemeanor Court, headed by Judge Amr Mukhtar, acquitted Chancellor Noha al-Imam al-Sheikh, a former administrative prosecutor, of assaulting a police officer at Cairo’s Heliopolis Court. Sheikh was absent from all trial sessions until the verdict hearing, the victim officer Walid Assal was absent from the verdict hearing on Thursday. The court had previously ordered in November that Sheikh be brought before the forensic doctors to examine her mental health. The incident occurred on August 30, when Assal asked Sheikh to put on a facemask, reveal her identity, and stop filming the court building’s interior with her phone. After the officer confiscated her phone, she then ripped off his shoulder badge.

Source: Egypt Independent April 16, 2021 09:11 UTC