CAIRO - A video from Egypt showing a woman enduring a mob sexual assault on New Year’s Eve was deemed authentic by the country’s police Thursday. The viral video has reignited long-running controversy over rampant sexual harassment in Egypt. In October, Egypt was stunned when a teenage boy was fatally stabbed while defending a girl from sexual harassment. Egypt toughened its sexual harassment laws in 2014. “Can the Egyptian officials please stop denying the existence of sexual harassment in Egypt?“ said Amel Fahmy, a women’s rights activist, in a post on social media Thursday.

Source: thestar January 02, 2020 15:33 UTC