Court fines Nasser's daughter for libeling Sadat

CAIRO: A court has ordered the daughter of late President Gamal Abdel Nasser to pay a fine to the daughter of assassinated President Anwar Sadat in the outcome of a feud between the families of the two presidents, according to a newspaper report.Monday s ruling compelled Hoda Abdel Nasser to pay Ruqqiya El Sadat the sum of LE 100,000 for libeling President Sadat.In an interview last year with an Egyptian magazine, Nasser s daughter accused Sadat of being behind Nasser s 1970 death from a heart attack, allegedly in the interest of the United States.Sadat s daughter filed the lawsuit after the interview, her second such action. Earlier, a different court had dismissed a previous suit by Sadat s daughter, saying the comments by Nasser s daughter were not “incriminatory. In its early edition for Tuesday, the government daily Al Gomhuria quoted court judge Ahmed Muwafi as saying the accusations by Nasser s daughter were unsubstantiated and exceeded the “limits of freedom of speech. The two late presidents daughters were not immediately available for comment. The courts could also not be reached for comment. -AP