Nasser Maher Acquitted as Court Overturns Six-Month Jail Sentence

The New Cairo Misdemeanor Court has acquitted footballer Nasser Maher, overturning a six-month prison sentence in a case involving an alleged assault on a security guard.

The charge concerned an incident in Cairo’s Tagamoa district. Maher had initially been sentenced to jail over the allegation.

The court accepted Maher’s opposition to that ruling, cancelled the prison sentence and found him not guilty. The decision therefore went beyond reducing or suspending the earlier punishment.

Whether the case could return to court remains unclear. The available details do not indicate that a challenge to the acquittal has been filed or that further proceedings have been scheduled.