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Court sentences former Egyptian presidential hopeful to a year in prison
The Matareya Misdemeanor Court ruled that former MP and presidential hopeful Ahmed al-Tantawi be imprisoned for one year with a suspended sentence, and banned him from running in parliamentary elections for a period of five years. The RT website reported Tantawi’s lawyer Nabih al-Janady as saying that the court convicted his client and others on charges of circulating papers related to the elections without the permission of the competent authorities, calling on citizens to sign popular proxies. He continued that the court also fined Tantawi LE20,000, prohibited him from running for any presidential position, and punished the rest of the defendants in the case to one year in prison. A member

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