CAIRO: A lawyer for Egyptian actor Amr Waked of “Syriana” fame said he has been convicted by a Cairo court for damaging a car parked outside his Cairo home.
Lawyer Tareq Said said a misdemeanor court sentenced Waked to three months in prison during a weekend hearing.
The 45-year-old Waked was never detained over the alleged mid-September incident and did not attend the Saturday hearing in which the court announced its verdict, which can be appealed, Said told The Associated Press on Monday.
Waked was released on a 1,000-pound ($60) bail and an appeal was to be submitted on Tuesday, he added.
Waked has denied the charge, according to Said. He hinted that the case may be politically motivated.
Waked is best known to international audiences and in Hollywood for his role in the 2005 film “Syriana,” for which in 2006 he won a “Special Award for Arabs in The International Cinema” at the Cairo International Film Festival. He joined Hollywood stars Matt Damon, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, and Gwyneth Paltrow in the 2011 film, “Contagion” and co-starred in the British film “Salmon Fishing in the Yemen” with Emily Blunt, Ewan McGregor, and Kristin Scott Thomas and also co-starred in “Lucy” alongside Morgan Freeman and Scarlett Johansson.
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