In reaction to Sunday's ‎recommendation from the parliament's ethics committee that the House strips him of membership in parliament, high-profile MP ‎Anwar El-Sadat told reporters on Monday that he ‎has officially asked the prosecutor-general to investigate him over allegations levelled against him in parliament in order to clear his name.

Sources affiliated with the ethics committee told ‎reporters Sunday that its 15 members ‎agreed Sadat must be stripped of his ‎parliamentary membership after he was found ‎guilty of giving top secret state information to the ‎Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), leaking ‎copies of a government-drafted NGO law to the ‎Dutch ambassador in Cairo, and faking the ‎signature of 15 MP colleagues.‎

In response, Sadat lodged a complaint against himself with the prosecutor-general's office, asking Prosecutor-General Nabil Sadeq to take all measures necessary to question him over ‎the committee's accusations.

In his complaint, Sadat said, "as these ‎accusations negatively affect my dignity and ‎reputation as an MP, I hope that you officially ‎request from parliament that I be stripped of my ‎parliamentary immunity," in order to "uncover the truth ‎about all the facts related to these accusations ‎before Egyptian public opinion and in line ‎with the constitution."‎

Sadat told reporters Sunday that he had not ‎been officially or personally informed of the ‎ethics committee's recommendations.

"While I ‎was investigated, I said I do not trust the ethics ‎sub-committee which questioned me and that I ‎should instead be investigated by the prosecutor-‎general himself," said Sadat.‎

Sadat has denied all the accusations against him, ‎insisting that he never leaked the draft NGO law to ‎foreign ambassadors in Cairo or sent classified ‎information to the IPU—an international institution.‎

A number of MPs expressed solidarity with ‎Sadat on Monday, saying, "It is completely ‎unjust that Sadat be stripped of his parliamentary ‎membership."‎

The leftist 25-30 parliamentary group said in a ‎statement Monday that stripping Sadat of his membership would be highly arbitrary. "Most of the ‎accusations levelled against Sadat are ‎groundless and largely politicised," the statement read.‎

Samir Ghattas, an independent leftist MP, also ‎told reporters that the accusations against Sadat ‎should be thoroughly investigated by the ‎prosecutor-general himself because the ethics ‎committee is politicised and cannot be trusted.‎

Ghattas said the Dutch ambassador in Cairo ‎denied that Sadat had given him a copy of the ‎government-drafted NGO law.

"The foreign ‎ministry should summon the Dutch ambassador ‎in an official way to question him on this issue," Ghattas said, adding "the Dutch ambassador ‎himself has said before that he has never seen ‎Sadat in person."‎

Ghattas also argued that two experts in ‎handwriting should be appointed to investigate ‎whether Sadat faked the signatures ‎of his colleague MPs.‎

Ghattas insisted that what Sadat sent the ‎IPU was merely a complaint.

"He [Sadat] never ‎sent top secret information to any foreign ‎institution as the ethics committee alleges," said ‎Ghattas. ‎