There have been new developments in the case Al-Ahly player Emam Ashour, who was arrested for assaulting a security guard at a popular mall in the Sheikh Zayed area of ​​Giza Governorate in June.

The Sheikh Zayed Criminal Court decided on Tuesday to jail Ashour for six months after accepting the prosecution’s appeal against his acquittal.

The court had previously ruled to acquit the player, but the prosecution decided to challenge the decision.

Ashour’s lawyer and the Al-Ahly club’s legal adviser, Mohamed Othman, said he was not notified of Tuesday’s meeting legally and that the decision against the player was in absentia.

He also revealed that he plans to appeal the recent court ruling.

Prosecutors accused Ashour of assaulting and injuring a security guard.

The player responded to the accusation saying that the incident was a tug of war which resulted in the guard falling to the ground.

He added that he received a call from his wife, Yasmine Hafez, saying that “a group of youths harassed her and that security did not intervene”, so he went to the mall and was prevented from entering .

Ashour then said he grabbed “the cell phone that was in the possession of the victim’s security guard because he was filming it while he and others were there,” because he wanted to see the people his wife said harassed- a.