Social media has become a new and dangerous battleground for women's rights in Egypt after young TikTok influencers were jailed while a resurgent MeToo
Social media has become a new and dangerous battleground for women’s rights in Egypt after young TikTok influencers were jailed while a resurgent #MeToo movement decried male sexual violence.
Just two days later, a court sentenced another young social media influencer, Manar Samy, to three years in prison over TikTok videos, deeming the clips in which she dances and lip-syncs to popular songs to be “inciting debauchery”. The Egyptian authorities “not only want to control what citizens say, but also how they should dress, talk, and behave online,” said Marwa Fatafta, the group’s Middle East and North Africa policy manager.
“In the past, the Egyptian regime tightened its stronghold on the internet… Now, the online repression extends to non-political activity too,” said Fatafta.Hossam was arrested after posting a clip saying that girls could make money by working with her, a message that was interpreted as a call for prostitution, while Adham had posted satirical videos on TikTok and Instagram.
“She committed crimes, she admitted to some of them,” the prosecutor-general said in a statement. “She deserves to be punished.” Another was young women posting testimonials about sexual misconduct that led to the arrest earlier in the month of Ahmed Bassam Zaki, 22, a former student of some of Egypt’s most elite schools and universities.Rights groups say the government of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has been curtailing freedoms since he took office in 2014.
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