Undersecretary of the Ministry of Education Damietta SayedSwailam (R) meets with Basmala Ali, the abused teenager (L) - Press photoCAIRO - 29 November 2018: Manal al-Gharib, the mother of Basmala Ali, a teenager who was allegedly abused by her teacher in one of Damietta's schools for her skin color, announced waiving their right to have the teacher criminally judged. "My daughter does not want her teacher to get imprisoned," Gharib said in an interview with Masrawy. The teacher however denied the charge, saying that he described her as "dark-skinned" and not black. "How can I mock her brown skin [while] my skin is [also] brown," the teacher said to the General Prosecution, according to media reports.Deyab wrote a phrase on the board during a class exercise saying "Basmala [Ali] is a black girl," according to the accusations. He added that this was what happened with the teacher who abused Basmala Ali, a student in one of Damietta's schools.

Source: Egypt Today November 29, 2018 14:15 UTC