Acquittal
The court accepted Zaki’s appeal against the first-degree verdict of 3 years in prison. He had handed down the three years in prison on December 29, 2020 by the Cairo Economic Court.
The incident goes back to May 2016 when a group of Muslim people stripped Souad Thabet (74 years) and paraded her naked in Al-Karm village in Abu Qurqas city of Minya after a clash erupted in the village due to rumors claiming that her son was having an affair with a Muslim married woman.
A Minya Criminal Court acquitted seven defendants of charges of killing and inciting violence in a case dubbed in media as “Retrial of El-Idwa Incidents” on Saturday.
