Street harassment and sexual violence are rampant in Egypt but the crimes are rarely taken seriously. In fact, about two-thirds of Egyptian men admit to street harassment women and half of them think street harassment is women’s fault.
So it’s nice to hear that at least one harasser will actually face consequences for his actions.
“A Cairo court sentenced a man on Monday to a two-year prison term as well as a LE2,000 ($330) fine for sexually assaulting a woman in an incident which occurred several months earlier.
Local rights group El-Nadeem which was handling the case announced that the 42-year-old man was arrested in July and eventually convicted of sexually assaulting a woman in the southern Cairo district of Maadi.
According to El-Nadeem’s statement on Monday, the sentenced man grabbed the young woman’s bottom, while she was waiting for a cab.”
