CAIRO, Jun 23 (Aswat Masriya) - Talk show television host Ahmed Moussa's sentence for charges of spreading false news was overturned by a Cairo court on Tuesday.

He was initially sentenced in March has recently been the centre of controversy. Moussa traveled to Germany alongside many other public figures, who accompanied President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on his trip to Berlin earlier this month, despite the sentence. 

The court accepted Moussa's challenge, rescinding the verdict which was handed to him in absentia.

The lawsuit had been flied by politician Osama El-Ghazali Harb, the head and co-founder of the Democratic Front Party.   

Harb's lawyer said in the lawsuit that Moussa claimed that Harb was one of the people who were part of a "conspiracy" against the Egyptian people, in reference to the January 2011 uprising.