The South Giza Prosecution office decided on Sunday that there is insufficient evidence to pursue sexual blackmail charges against Cairo University’s professor of Mass Communication Yaseen Lasheen. Cairo University referred Yaseen Lasheen in August to general prosecution on allegations of sexual harassment and blackmail of a woman in his office. Lasheen has reportedly been accepting gifts from students to pass his courses, and he would usually ask them on dates at his office. Many female students made posts on social media suggesting that Lasheen had sexually harassed them, accusations Lasheen has denied. The location of the incident was not clear from the leaked audio recording, neither is whether the woman is a student or not.

Source: Egypt Independent December 10, 2017 13:41 UTC