Arrests follow viral video of sex assault

Egyptian police arrested seven men accused of sexually assaulting women at inauguration celebrations for President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The arrests came after a graphic video of one attack went viral triggering public outrage. The footage shows a crowd of men surrounding the young woman, who was stripped off her clothes and badly bruised, as police escorted her to an ambulance on Cairo’s iconic Tahrir Square. The video appears to have been taken on a mobile phone. A security official authenticated the video, saying police had arrested seven men for assaulting and stripping the 19-year-old student. One twitter user said, “Sexual harassment in Tahrir… is absolutely disgusting. I have no words. So appalled and ashamed.” The Egyptian interior ministry said police had arrested seven men aged 16 to 49 as “they had harassed a number of girls during the celebrations in the Tahrir area.”

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