The South Giza Court summons on Saturday a Presidential Advisor Seif Abdel-Fattah and notorious lawyer Mortada Mansour to hear testimonies in defamation accusations they have been exchanging.

The court is to hear Mansour on Wednesday and is still to set a date to hear Abdel-Fattah.

The rivals lodged complaints against each other to Prosecutor-General Abdel-Meguid Mahmoud who forwarded their cases to the court on Friday.

Abdel-Fattah accuses Mansour of defamation and Mansour filed his own complaint, claiming that Abdel-Fattah had, in fact, insulted him.

Mansour and Abdel-Fattah appeared on the Ashera Masaan (10 in the Evening) satellite programme and discussed President Mohamed Morsi's failed attempt earlier this month to replace Prosecutor-General Mahmoud.

Abdel-Fattah claimed Mansour was indirectly accusing him of being involved in Morsi's decision to replace the prosecutor-general - an act which was later highly condemned by the judiciary as a threat to their independence.

Meanwhile, Mansour claimed during the same televised argument that Abdel-Fattah had used his position as presidential advisor to threaten him.