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Ashraf Farahat and Ashraf Nagy publicly decried her comments in the interview broadcast on Iraqi satellite TV channel Al Rasheed, in which she discussed her controversial career with host Nizar Al Faris.
After the court’s ruling, Youssef posted a tweet celebrating her acquittal and thanked the Egyptian judiciary for being “the patron of rights and freedoms in Egypt”.
Her lawyer, Tarek El Awady, also posted a celebratory tweet announcing her innocence on Sunday.
The National reached out to El Awady for comment on the verdict, but he declined.
In the interview, Youssef said Muslim women should not be made to wear the hijab in Egypt.