The latest developments of the case of sexual harassment in Cairo



Monitoring the number of cases of harassment of women downtown Cairo, confirmed the report campaigns against sexual harassment in Egypt, is responsible for the growing phenomenon, caused due to the fact that the Prime Minister did not take any security measures after he witnessed Eid al-Fitr violations and harassment of women.


The third day of Eid al-Adha, the increasing harassment crimes in the central city for the previous two days, tops Talaat Harb Street, the highest rate of cases of harassment.



As it was in the Nile Corniche in front of the Maspero, harassment military-old girl 17 years near the bridge Kasr El-Nil, and a young man at the age of 20 years harassment attracting girl violently and kiss her, and tried her lap, so she girl pushed violently, while security forces were watching the situation did not moving, according to the report.



And the young men in the thirty-physical harassment lady carrying a child on her hand, where he tried to violently grabbed him but she pushed him away and fled.



Qasr al-Nil Bridge, which ends access to the beginning of Tahrir Square, the form of a number of young people, aged between 15 and 17 years, a circle around 3 girls, and tried to get their phone numbers under duress.



Confirmed campaigns against harassment on the rejection of the use of violence or threat of violence against any guilty, although the punishment and response force of law to achieve justice and stability of the state, and declared the responsibility for any calls for the use of violence against harassers, and that the role of these initiatives depends on providing awareness and provide safe corridors for women and girls harassment in places.

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