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An Egyptian court has sentenced an Islamist politician to jail for committing an indecent sexual act in public and assaulting police who arrested him, in a case that could damage the image of his ultra-conservative movement. Ali Wanees was detained in June on a main road outside Cairo. A young woman wearing a full face veil was sitting on top of him in a parked car, according to police. Wanees said the woman was a relative and he had been trying to revive her after she suffered from an ailment which he did not explain. The woman was sentenced to...