Sadat family threaten to sue over documentary film

THE family of former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat has threatened to sue the Iranian producers of a documentary film portraying his 1981 assassination as the killing of a traitor by a martyr.

Sadat family threaten to sue over documentary film

The documentary, entitled Assassination of a Pharaoh, has already been shown on Iranian television, the Al-Masry al-Youm newspaper reported yesterday.

The film, broadcast ā€œin honour of the martyrs of the Islamic renaissanceā€, deals with ā€œthe revolutionary assassination of the treacherous Egyptian president at the hands of the martyr Khaled Islambouliā€, the paper said.

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