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On Tuesday, the Cairo Economic Court sentenced university student Ahmed Bassam Zaki to three years in prison with work.
He was convicted of harassing girls and abusing communication tools and social networking sites.
At the beginning of July, the Public Ministry opened an investigation into the accusations against the young man, after receiving several complaints through WhatsApp, accusing the young man of committing these acts in 2016, and ordered his continued detention pending the case.
Investigations by the Prosecutor’s Office indicated that the defendant committed acts of sexual harassment and pornographic references by sending images and text messages through WhatsApp to two girls in the period 2016-2020.
Ahmed Bassam Zaki is also reportedly on trial before the Cairo Criminal Court on charges against him for indecent assault on three girls and possession of narcotics.
On September 1, Egypt’s Public Ministry ordered the referral of young Ahmed Bassam Zaki to an urgent trial on the aforementioned charges.
Economic courts in Egypt deal with cases that occur through internet media, social media and others, in accordance with a law passed in 2018.
Accusations of harassment and assault on girls were spread on social media, amid a wave of complaints of these practices launched by activists in Egypt.
Dozens of girls claimed that Ahmed Bassam Zaki had harassed and followed them in the sands of the virtual world on social media or in real life since the accused was still in high school.
Egyptian law criminalizes sexual harassment, whether verbal or real, in the real or virtual world, with imprisonment and fines.
Despite the toughening of the laws to confront this phenomenon, the victims complain about the lack of support from the community.
Lawmakers say the solution is to break the silence.
On July 2, a page was created on the Instagram site titled “Complaint Ahmed Bassam Zaki @assaultpolice”, which contains dozens of testimonies against a twenty-year-old by survivors who did not announce their names, who confirmed that they had been subjected to various types of sexual assaults during Your study period.
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Many call on women in Egypt not to be silent on incidents of sexual harassment (Archives)
The case caused a scandal in Egyptian society, whose institutions focused on the problems of harassment or rape took a turn that encouraged victims not to fear or be content with writing on social media and instead denouncing the accused.
Social networking sites in Egypt play a prominent role in such thorny issues, the most famous of which is the “Vermont” case, along with the Ahmed Bassam Zaki case, in an attempt to change society’s view of the victims of sexual harassment and assault.
The Egyptian government passed a bill to ensure the confidentiality of victim data in cases of sexual harassment.
Ahmed Bassam Zaki will appear next January 9 before the Cairo Criminal Court, in a case in which he faces charges of indecent assault on three girls, one of whom is under the age of eighteen.
