Genoa, Oct. 1 (LaPresse) – “In 2024, the case against me was dismissed twice; in 2025, the new prosecutor reopened the case, beyond the deadline and without the necessary new evidence. A crime that I did not commit, with three witnesses saying that I committed adultery. They are three people, including a friend of my ex-husband, an Italian whom I had never met, who came to Egypt specifically to testify and get me imprisoned.” Nessy Guerra, the woman from Sanremo who is stranded in Egypt with her 3-year-old daughter and was sentenced on appeal to six months in prison in proceedings over alleged “adultery,” of which she was accused by her ex-husband, Tamer Hamouda, told LaPresse. “When we arrived in Egypt, he began practicing the Islamic religion. When the divorce proceedings began, he took me before the Islamic court, saying that he was a fundamentalist. He does not even speak Arabic. He hoped to exploit religion to obtain custody of the child and have me imprisoned. He did not succeed, and now he says he is Christian,” Guerra continued. “My ex-husband is asking on social media for me to be publicly stoned if I do not return to him. Today marks three months that I have been confined to the house; I do not go out, I do not see sunlight, I cannot take my daughter out for a walk. We hoped that what is effectively house arrest would be deducted, but yesterday we learned that I am not serving my sentence. No one had told us,” she added. The Egyptian Court of Cassation’s ruling could still take a long time, but it became certain in recent hours that, in the event of a conviction, the months Guerra has already spent under forced house arrest will not be deducted from the possible six-month sentence imposed and upheld on appeal.
Egypt, Nessy Guerra: “The case had been closed but was reopened out of time and without evidence”
Genoa, Oct. 1 (LaPresse) – “In 2024, the case against me was dismissed twice; in 2025, the new prosecutor reopened the case, beyond the deadline and without the necessary new evidence. A crime that I did not commit, with three witnesses saying that I committed adultery. They are three people, including a friend of my ex-husband, an Italian whom I had never met, who came to Egypt specifically to testify and get me imprisoned.” Nessy Guerra, the woman from Sanremo who is stranded in Egypt with her 3-year-old daughter and was sentenced on appeal to six months in prison in proceedings over alleged “adultery,” of which she was accused by her ex-husband, Tamer Hamouda, told LaPresse. “When we arrived in Egypt, he began practicing the Islamic religion. When the divorce proceedings began, he took me before the Islamic court, saying that he was a fundamentalist. He does not even speak Arabic. He hoped to exploit religion to obtain custody of the child and have me imprisoned. He did not succeed, and now he says he is Christian,” Guerra continued. “My ex-husband is asking on social media for me to be publicly stoned if I do not return to him. Today marks three months that I have been confined to the house; I do not go out, I do not see sunlight, I cannot take my daughter out for a walk. We hoped that what is effectively house arrest would be deducted, but yesterday we learned that I am not serving my sentence. No one had told us,” she added. The Egyptian Court of Cassation’s ruling could still take a long time, but it became certain in recent hours that, in the event of a conviction, the months Guerra has already spent under forced house arrest will not be deducted from the possible six-month sentence imposed and upheld on appeal.