An Egyptian court has sentenced an activist to two years in jail over a video she posted on social media criticising the government for failing to protect women against sexual harassment and over poor living conditions, her lawyer said. “When a woman is subjected to sexual harassment and gets sentenced to two years and fined then this means we are telling all Egyptian women ‘shut your mouths . Seventeen UN human rights experts criticised Egypt on Friday for its use of anti-terrorism laws to detain activists fighting for women’s rights and against graft, torture and extra-judicial killings. At the time a security source said Fathy had been detained over a complaint that she had insulted the Egyptian state through an offensive social media posting. Egypt passed a law in July giving the state powers to block social media accounts and penalise journalists held to be publishing fake news.

Source: The Irish Times September 29, 2018 18:00 UTC