“Egyptian lawmakers have proposed new legislation that for the first time specifically defines and sets out punishments for sexual harassment, amid an alarming rise in assaults on women.
The proposed law defines a harasser as someone who “accosts others in a public or private place through following or stalking them, using gestures or words or through modern means of communication or in any other means through actions that carry sexual or pornographic hints,” Ahram Online reported….
Aide Ahmed el-Sergany told reporters that the draft will be revised by the cabinet before referring it to the president to formally issue it “soon.”
According to the proposed law, a harasser will receive a prison sentence, a fine or both.”
We’ll see. Egypt has considered a new law against sexual harassment many times over the past few years and it even was the newshook for my first op-ed in 2010.
