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Egypt jails harassing student who sparked MeToo
In a rare victory for women s rights in Egypt, a 22-year-old student has been sentenced to three years in prison for sexually harassing two women using social media.
Ahmed Bassem Zaki was arrested in July in Cairo, where he attended the elite American University.
Accusations against him sparked a wider MeToo campaign as women reported their experiences of sexual harassment.
Such harassment has been illegal in Egypt since 2014.
The court, which tries cyber crimes, found Zaki guilty of sending pornographic photographs and texts to the women s phones. He can appeal against the verdict, reports AFP news agency.
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Ahmed Bassam Zaki, a former student at the American University of Cairo, was found guilty by the economic court, which tries cyber crimes, of sexually harassing two girls over the phone, sending sexual photos to one of them and repeatedly contacting the other without her consent, a judicial source told AFP.
#MeToo: Egypt sentences man to 3 years in prison for sexual harassment
Zaki, a former student of some of Egypt s most elite schools and the American University in Cairo, was arrested on July 4 and confessed to assaulting and blackmailing six complainants.
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CAIRO: An Egyptian court on Tuesday sentenced a former student to three years in prison for sexually harassing two young women, in a case that sparked outrage on social media under the #MeToo hashtag.
The economic court, which tries cyber crimes, sentenced Ahmed Bassem Zaki
to three years in prison, finding him guilty of sexually harassing two girls over the phone, sending sexual photos to one of them and repeatedly contacting the other without her consent , a judicial source told AFP.
December 29, 2020 at 6:38 pm | Published in: Africa, Egypt, News
A graphic calling Ahmed Bassem Zaki a rapist, posted on an Instagram profile claiming to collect evidence against him [assaultpolice / Instragram] December 29, 2020 at 6:38 pm
A former Cairo student was jailed for three years on Tuesday for using social media to sexually harass women and will face charges of sexual assault next month in a case that triggered a #MeToo moment in the country.
Ahmed Bassam Zaki, formerly at the American University in Cairo, will face the court again on January 9 on charges of indecent assault and blackmail investigated after scores of women joined an Instagram campaign to accuse him of sex crimes.