{"id":16790,"date":"2018-09-29T20:23:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T20:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16790"},"modified":"2018-09-29T20:23:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T20:23:29","slug":"court-sentences-egypt-activist-who-slammed-sexual-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16790","title":{"rendered":"Court sentences Egypt activist who slammed sexual harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1379696\/middle-east\" readability=\"56\">\n<p>\nCAIRO:\u00a0An Egyptian court Saturday handed a two-year suspended jail sentence to a woman human rights activist arrested in May after posting a video criticising sexual harassment in Egypt, her lawyer said.<br \/>Amal Fathi, 33, was convicted of spreading fake news and fined 10,000 Egyptian pounds ($560 dollars), her lawyer Doaa Mustafa told AFP.<br \/>&#8220;We will challenge the ruling,&#8221; Mustafa said, adding that Fathi could pay 20,000 pounds to have her sentence suspended.<br \/>However, Fathi is still in detention awaiting trial in another case in which she is accused of &#8220;membership in a terrorist group&#8221;, her lawyer added.<br \/>Amnesty International denounced Saturday&#8217;s &#8220;disgraceful&#8221; verdict against Fathi who, it said, was sentenced &#8220;simply for her courage to speak out against sexual harassment&#8221;.<br \/>&#8220;This is an outrageous case of injustice, where the survivor is sentenced while the abuser remains at large,&#8221; the rights group&#8217;s Najia Bounaim said in a statement.<br \/>Fathi &#8220;is a human rights defender and sexual harassment survivor, who told her truth to the world and highlighted the vital issue of women\u2019s safety in Egypt,&#8221; Bounaim said.<br \/>&#8220;She is not a criminal and should not be punished for her bravery.&#8221;<br \/>Fathi was arrested in May after posting a Facebook video in which she accused authorities of failing to protect women and charging that guards at a bank had sexually harassed her.<br \/>Some 60 percent of women in Egypt said they had been victims of some form of sexual harassment during their life, in a 2017 report from UN Women and Promundo.<br \/>Public debate over harassment intensified in the aftermath of the January 2011 uprising against former president Hosni Mubarak.<br \/>The protests demanding Mubarak&#8217;s ouster centred around Cairo&#8217;s Tahrir Square, where constant media coverage also highlighted sexual attacks and helped show public denial of the phenomenon.<br \/>Following the uprising, anti-harassment graffiti spread around downtown Cairo, volunteers organised to rescue women from mob attacks, and more women shared their own stories publicly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAIRO:\u00a0An Egyptian court Saturday handed a two-year suspended jail sentence to a woman human rights activist arrested in May after posting a video criticising sexual harassment in Egypt, her lawyer said.Amal Fathi, 33, was convicted of spreading fake news and fined 10,000 Egyptian pounds ($560 dollars), her lawyer Doaa Mustafa told AFP.&#8221;We will challenge the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":16791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}