Tourist gets eight-year sentence after calling Egypt "son of a bitch country"
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http://www.newsweek.com/tourist-gets-eight-year-prison-sentence-egypt-1013235
A female tourist in Egypt has been sentenced to eight years in prison for a viral Facebook video in which she complained about sexual harassment she experienced in Cairo, calling the
North African nation a “son of a b**** country.”
A court in Egypt’s capital ruled Saturday that Lebanese tourist Mona el-Mazbouh, 24, is guilty of "deliberately spreading false rumors that would harm society, attacking religion, and
public indecency,” Reuters reported.
An appeal court is set to hear the case on July 29, and the woman's lawyer, Emad Kamal, hopes that the verdict will be overturned. “Of course, God willing, the verdict will change. With
all due respect to the judiciary, this is a severe ruling. It is in the context of the law, but the court was applying the maximum penalty,” Kamal said, Al Jazeera reported.
Kamal also said that his client struggles to control her anger and also deals with depression as the result of a 2006 surgery that removed a clot from her brain.
Mazbouh was arrested last month at Cairo International Airport when she tried to leave Egypt. In her viral video clip, Mazbouh complained about sexual harassment she experienced
from young men in the streets as well as from taxi drivers. The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women reported in 2013 that 99.3 percent of
Egyptian women have experienced some form of sexual harassment. Mazbouh also mentioned a previous visit to Egypt during which she was robbed of money.
Continuing her rant, Mazbouh called Egypt "the country of pimps ... the country of beggars” and said it was a "son of a b**** country." Referencing the crackdowns on political dissent
from activists and journalists as well as the ongoing economic struggles under the leadership of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the woman angrily said Egyptians “deserve what Sisi is
doing to” them and that she hopes God sends “someone more oppressive than Sisi.”
Before attempting to leave Cairo last month, the woman posted a follow up video in which she apologized, saying she “definitely didn't mean to offend all Egyptians.” Mazbouh also
claimed her original video was not meant to be viewed by the public, and that the post was a "private one," which was only accessible by 25 friends.
"I definitely didn't mean to offend all Egyptians, and never meant to say anything about the country's political affairs," she said, according to media reports. "I love all Egyptians and I
love this country, that's why I visited it more than once and I keep coming back."
Despite her apology and explanation, the Cairo court decided to hand down what her lawyer referred to as the “maximum penalty.” Activists, journalists and government critics are
frequently detained for calling out human rights abuses or criticizing political leaders in Egypt.
seems like what a son of a bitch country would do
>The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women reported in 2013 that 99.3 percent of
Egyptian women have experienced some form of sexual harassment.
What the actual FUCK?
What an absolute shithole lmao
the woman angrily said Egyptians “deserve what Sisi is
doing to” them and that she hopes God sends “someone more oppressive than Sisi.”
Okay yeah she's a bit of cunt, but this prison sentence is overly harsh treatment.
At worst shouldn't it be complete banned from entering?
That would only make them a son of a jerk country, which is lower than they are aiming for.
It should be absolutely fucking nothing
She was wrong about it being a son of a bitch country, more like it's a shithole. I suppose the monkeys in the Egyptian judicial system have never heard of the Streisand effect?
Assuming that will harm them in any way?
Imagine being a country who's only notable achievement is a bunch of graves built for people who thought cats where god
Sounds like a son of a bitch country to me
Of course i'm joking, the news is still fucked though
"deliberately spreading false rumors that would harm society, attacking religion, and
public indecency,”
Ah, the classic "attacks religion" strawman. This is why separation of state and church is a thing.
The governor of Maine just vetoed a bill banning gay conversion therapy on religious protection grounds.
Not surprising. I've met a few women who've traveled around North Africa. They've all said it's beautiful but they really couldn't leave the hostel without a male friend or another male traveler. One lady described Morocco, although beautiful, as the "dead baby" of her travels. She once was in a market and wandered slightly away from the dude in the hostel she'd met when she started getting harassed by a street seller. Her friend saw what was going on and came over to yell at the dude, at which point he apologized to him for messing with "his woman". It's pretty fucked.
The biggest worry for me, is that by the time I'm 80, these countries are going to be much more powerful, and if something isn't done to help with the ethical development, the future of humanity is not going to be pretty. Fortunately, as countries develop and women are educated the general trend is toward greater civil liberties-- I just see these countries being the battlegrounds of some extremely important events in humanity's moral future.
Why do people even visit these shitholes anyway?
Yeah tourism and nice sights and bla bla bla... Until you sneaze the wrong way and you're right hand gets cut off and you're imprisoned for life.
Egypt is a son of a bitch country
Remind me never to go there
Traveling the world is seen as a luxury, unfortunately many places around the world literally do not care about basic human rights so when taking part in said luxury you need to "respect" their evil as fuck laws.
Fuck Egypt it's shit
Really a damn shame we were forced to give them the Suez
Maybe never go there.
Egypt is a lovely country. When I went I had nothing but friendliness from the locals. A despicable government does not make a place evil. Lookin' at all of us US posters in here
Did you even read the statistics
Yeah and how many UK women get cat called? Ask your sisters or your mother. Doesn't mean the UK is being worth wiped off the map
My mother and sister have never been cat called and-an eastern desert nation ruled by an Islamic government doesn't excatly seem like a place where sexual harrasment is only going to be a yells and shouts
probably cause you're not a woman lol
It always makes me shudder with disgust when people say that their free speech is being oppressed because they can't call someone a "faggot" via Youtube comments, and then you have nations where THIS can happen. Perspective is a fuckin' wonderful thing sometimes.
My mom had some trips to egypt a while back, it was allegedly a nice enough country back then. And when she showed some more affluent guy a picture of my sister in a 'and these are my kids'- kind of way, she was apparently offered to sell her for some amount of camels. So a bit ass-backwards, this egypt.
De-colonization was a mistake.
I can vouch for this, I went to Sharm-El-Sheik when I was younger in the Sinai Peninsula and my mum was harassed a few times by the hotel staff, it's even worse when you leave the resort tho even the men get grabbed. I nearly got temporarily "kidnapped" as my mum didn't want to buy anything from this guys shop but he kept insisting we buy something after dragging us in. He was talking about this real papyrus stuff however on the label it state 'Real Parpryus" which I pointed out to my mum so she told the guy she had her purse in the hotel room and he said "Okay, I'll keep him here while you go get it, okay? ". That was that tho we just had to firmly say NO to him and left since it was just us and a few Egyptians in this little shop
Wouldn't it be easier to visit a better country?
Same thing for UAE. What a shithole where only the rich prevail.
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