Cairo misdemeanor court on Saturday acquitted prominent activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah of insulting a public official.
In November 2014, Abdel-Fattah was sentenced in absentia to a month in prison and a fine of LE200 over a dispute with a police officer during the 'Shura Council' trial.
Abdel-Fattah is currently serving a five-year sentence in the 'Shura Council' case, in which he and 24 others were accused of rioting, participating in an unauthorised protest, disrupting the lives of citizens and exposing them to danger, attacking an employee while on duty and thuggery.
Also in 2014, Abdel-Fattah, along with his sister Mona Seif and ten other defendants, was sentenced to a one-year suspended sentence for illegal assembly and using force in front of former presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq's campaign headquarters.
