{"id":13673,"date":"2018-09-03T02:22:40","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T02:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13673"},"modified":"2018-09-03T02:22:40","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T02:22:40","slug":"egyptian-woman-made-famous-by-leaked-mubarak-photo-threatens-to-sue-anyone-who-uses-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13673","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian woman made famous by \u2018leaked\u2019 Mubarak photo threatens to sue anyone who uses it"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Egyptian woman made famous by \u2018leaked\u2019 Mubarak photo threatens to sue anyone who uses it<\/h2>\n
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\nCAIRO: A leaked photo of the deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has sparked a frenzied debate in Egypt, ranging from his health to the state of the country\u2019s economy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mubarak, 90, who was driven from power in 2011 after massive Arab Spring protests against his rule, appeared next to Helly El-Saadani, a nutritionist. The former ruler looked to be showing his age but had also put on a significant amount of weight.<\/p>\n

Egyptians have pored over the image in forensic detail to try to glean as much information as possible about Mubarak\u2019s health and situation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The image was a far cry from when he was wheeled into a court room on a hospital gurney during legal proceedings after the uprising.<\/p>\n

El-Saadani told Arab News that the picture was private and leaked without her \u201cpermission and consent.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf anyone uses it again I will sue them,\u201d she said in a statement. \u201cI hope the news respects the privacy of people from now on.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nHabibty this picture was taken recently President Mubarak left the presidency since 2011. And what kind of trouble are u talking abt?What\u2019s more important to me that I was trusted & gave my word &promised something but I wasn\u2019t able to keep that promise even tho it\u2019s not my fault<\/p>\n

\u2014 Helly (@hellyelsaadani) September 1, 2018<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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After the leak, El-Saadani reposted the picture herself on her Twitter account and said: \u201cI took this picture with President Mubarak because I love him and I respect him very much. It was a dream come true to have met him.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe asked me not to publish this picture, but somehow the picture was stolen from my phone and was leaked by someone close to me. Shame.\u201d<\/p>\n

Doubts have been expressed on social media about whether the picture was actually leaked or whether she published it herself.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\nSome people claimed that it is illogical that this picture in particular, which appears to send a statement about Mubarak\u2019s wellbeing, was stolen and leaked.<\/p>\n

El-Saadani responded that it was leaked because she has no PIN code for her phone.<\/p>\n

Some Egyptians took the opportunity of the picture\u2019s release to ask Mubarak\u2019s eldest son, Alaa, via his Twitter account, about his father\u2019s health, to which he responded: \u201cThank God, thank God, my father is fine.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the Egyptian daily newspapers published a report discussing the chair upon which Mubarak was sitting in the picture. The report said that the La-Z-Boy recliner he was using is worth around 24,000 Egyptian pounds ($1,329).<\/p>\n

This angered Alaa Mubarak, who described the article as \u201canother level of hostility, stupidity and repression.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the newspaper preferred to ignore all the problems of the people and instead worked hard to find the price of a chair.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThings will never improve if you don\u2019t respect the intelligence of the people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The statement had more than 3,000 retweets and a lot of supportive comments. One person said that if Mubarak was still president, the chair would have cost a lot less in Egyptian money because of the collapse of the Egyptian pound in the years after he had been ousted.<\/p>\n

Alaa Tounsi, a beauty expert, confirmed that Mubarak was completely free of cosmetics in the image. Ahmed Riad, an expert in reading body language and facial expressions, said: \u201cHe has an open body language, and his face shows comfort, happiness, tranquility and inner peace.\u201d<\/p>\n

Islam Shawki, a graphic designer, said that the picture was real and had not been doctored or altered, denying rumors in some newspapers stating that the image was \u201cfabricated.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Former President Mubarak appeared in public for the first time since his resignation two years ago with his family in a tourist resort.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He appeared in the picture smiling and in good health, hugging his granddaughter, and sitting next to his son Jamal in a car.<\/p>\n

There have been many rumors about Mubarak\u2019s health over the years, with false reports of his death spread through social networks.<\/p>\n

The former president stood trial on charges of killing demonstrators during the uprising. The Misdemeanor Court ordered his release on Aug. 21, 2013.<\/p>\n

He was acquitted on Nov. 29, 2014, of all the charges against him before the Court of Appeal in Cairo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Egyptian woman made famous by \u2018leaked\u2019 Mubarak photo threatens to sue anyone who uses it CAIRO: A leaked photo of the deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has sparked a frenzied debate in Egypt, ranging from his health to the state of the country\u2019s economy.\u00a0 Mubarak, 90, who was driven from power in 2011 after massive…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":13674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}