Egypt to free Lebanese woman jailed after harassment claim 0 SHARES Share it! Share TweetBy Agence France-PresseEgypt will free a Lebanese woman jailed for eight years for “harming” its people after claiming in a video to have been sexually assaulted, a judicial source said Sunday. Tourist Mona al-Mazbouh was arrested in late May at Cairo airport as she was preparing to leave Egypt, and she was jailed for eight years in July. She appealed the verdict and it was accepted by a Cairo court, the judicial source said. Her lawyer, Emad Kamal, said that Mazbouh would be able to leave Egypt “within days” after paying 30,000 Egyptian pounds (around $1,670, 1,450 euros) in fines.

Source: Manila Bulletin September 10, 2018 01:07 UTC