Seven men charged with sexual abuse of a young woman in Egypt after the video of this incident in the New year, has caused outrage in social networks.
Video, the authenticity of which was confirmed by local police, shows that dozens of men chasing and grabbing the screaming woman on a busy street in the city of Mansoura, while others try to save her.
2019 2020 begins as ended in #Egypt .
Brutal violence against women & a systematic absence of law & governance mechanisms to reign in the beasts:
this from Mansoura last night. pic.twitter.com/gXGcYNX1Ff
— Amr Khalifa (@Cairo67Unedited) January 1, 2020
Authorities say 20-year-old victim was walking with a friend on Tuesday evening, it was surrounded by the crowd. At first the men just shouted after her, and passers-by were trying to protect — and finally she was sandwiched between two opposing camps.
In the video there is chaos. Someone holds sticks and jumping on the roof of the car, some trying to help the victim by bringing her into the vehicle.
After viewing the video frames from the area and interviewing witnesses, police identified seven suspects aged 18 to 20 years, adding that the investigation continues.
Audacious attack raised concerns about the high prevalence of sexual harassment in the conservative Muslim country. According to the survey, the mass sexual assaults that started to happen during political protests. The majority of Egyptian women say that don’t feel safe even just walking down the street.
Ultimately incidents such as these will continue so long as the #Egyptian continues its Criminal negligence by not tightening laws punishing sexual abusers.
This, of course, deeply embedded reasons for the malaise.
https://t.co/sN11QkQP3c
— Amr Khalifa (@Cairo67Unedited) January 3, 2020
Viral video of Egypt sexual violence in New year’s eve sparked a debate about street violence against women.
In the report of the United Nations in 2013 it was found that 99.3% of women experience different types of sexual harassment in Egypt, which suggests the existence of serious problems, which are still far from resolved.
Another study conducted in the USA showed that 60% of Egyptian men admitted that he committed sexual harassment at least once. The report for 2017 contains an alarming figure about the General violence against women found that more than 70% of men believe women should tolerate violence to keep the family together.
