Category Archive for : ‘EGYPT’

A man in a chic car stops suddenly in front of a woman crossing the street. He snaps her picture through a forward-facing camera in the rearview mirror as she looks at him, having not consented to being photographed. He smiles as her image then appears on his phone.

This scene played out in an advertisement by French carmaker Citroën featuring Egyptian megastar Amr Diab, an ad that the company withdrew Thursday following criticism in Egypt that it was promoting the harassment of women. Gender-based online abuse surged during the pandemic.

March 9, 2021
Aljazeera

Egyptian police arrested a man allegedly caught on a surveillance camera assaulting a young girl in widely shared footage that caused public outrage.
It is not clear exactly when the video was recorded, but it went viral on social media on Monday night with many users calling for the perpetrator’s immediate arrest. It showed a man abusing a child near the staircase of a residential building in the upmarket Maadi district in the capital Cairo.
He was confronted by a woman who opened the door of her apartment, an interruption

August 3, 2020
Hamdah Salhut, Trey Yingst
Fox News

Farah Radwan, a 27-year-old small business owner, was walking down the street in Cairo when she said a man stepped in front of her.

“You get people who are aggressive and that’s when it gets dangerous… Today I’m embarrassed to be Egyptian,” Radwan told Fox News.

Before long, more than a dozen people came out from shops laughing as the man allegedly harassed Radwan, making sexually suggestive remarks
Her experience, which took place in 2018, is not unique. Around 99 percent of Egyptian women have experienced sexual

July 14, 2020
Caty Weaver
Learning English VOA

Egypt is experiencing a renewed social media movement against sexual abuse that led to many accusations against a single man.

Cairo police arrested 21-year-old Ahmed Bassam Zaki at his home 10 days ago. The case has captured the country’s attention, partly because those involved come from rich and powerful families.

Women’s rights activists say they hope the government’s quick action signals a change in how the country deals with accusations of sexual wrongdoing.

More than 100 girls and women describe meeting Zaki in person and online. Their individual

July 7, 2020
Middle East Monitor

Egypt’s public prosecutor has charged a university student with indecent assault of at least three women, including one who was a minor at the time, in a case prompted by a social media campaign that opened up a rare public debate on sex crimes.

Ahmed Bassem Zaki, in his early 20s, was the target of a campaign on Instagram last week from an account that included postings by women accusing him of sex crimes. He is not known to have addressed the accusations publicly and Reuters was not able to

The Presbyterian Church (USA) will appoint a committee to investigate allegations of physical and sexual abuse of missionary children in Africa between the 1950s and 1980s.  The new panel’s first task will be to look at reports of abuse at missionary boarding schools in Egypt and Cameroon.  The allegations were initially made to another committee that was formed to report on abuse of missionary children in Congo between the 1940s and 1970s.  Last year, that committee recommended a broader church probe into charges of abuse against missionary children.

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