Amal Fathy, a 34-year-old Egyptian Mother who uploaded a video venting her frustration with the government over being sexually harassed at least twice in a day may have to go to Prison.
Her video criticised the current deteriorating human rights, which is now an alleged victim to. She is currently being charged with belonging to a terrorist group and also spreading fake news for speaking out over her sexual harassment incident
Human Rights Group has described the action as an outrageous injustice. Read Below
“The fact that a survivor of sexual harassment is being punished with a two-year prison sentence simply for speaking out about her experience is utterly disgraceful,” said Najia Bounaim, the human rights group’s North Africa campaigns director.
The Egyptian authorities have been accused of hiding behind the premise of Fake News to exert injustice against freely speaking citizens of the country.
Amal remains in custody despite paying the bail fine of $1,120 and an extra $560.
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