Free Egyptian TikTok girls from jail due to "Violating Family Values"
Free Egyptian TikTok girls from jail due to "Violating Family Values"
The Issue
From bbc:
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A court in Egypt has sentenced five young women to two years in prison for posting "indecent videos" on the video-sharing app TikTok.
The women - who have not all been named - were fined almost $19,000 (£15,000).
The jail sentences are the first to have been issued by a court as part of a campaign by the authorities against social media influencers.
Activists have mounted an online campaign in response, demanding the release of those detained.
"The Economic Court in Cairo sentenced Mawada al-Adham and Haneen Hossam and three others to two years in prison and fined them 300,000 Egyptian pounds each," the state-owned website al-Ahram reported.
"They are accused of violating the values and principles of Egyptian society and posting indecent photos and videos disturbing to public morals," al-Ahram added.
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Women are often at the receiving end of endless objectification and harassment in Egypt and being jailed over TikTok videos is just absurd, especially since there are countless licensed Cabarets in Cairo and you probably won't be able to attend a single Egyptian wedding that doesn't include a belly dancer, probably wearing much more revealing clothes.
These girls aren't rich, they're not well-connected and they have no one to save their future. I am not sure what this petition will achieve, but I'm certain that their stories need to be heard and acknowledged.
1,983
The Issue
From bbc:
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A court in Egypt has sentenced five young women to two years in prison for posting "indecent videos" on the video-sharing app TikTok.
The women - who have not all been named - were fined almost $19,000 (£15,000).
The jail sentences are the first to have been issued by a court as part of a campaign by the authorities against social media influencers.
Activists have mounted an online campaign in response, demanding the release of those detained.
"The Economic Court in Cairo sentenced Mawada al-Adham and Haneen Hossam and three others to two years in prison and fined them 300,000 Egyptian pounds each," the state-owned website al-Ahram reported.
"They are accused of violating the values and principles of Egyptian society and posting indecent photos and videos disturbing to public morals," al-Ahram added.
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Women are often at the receiving end of endless objectification and harassment in Egypt and being jailed over TikTok videos is just absurd, especially since there are countless licensed Cabarets in Cairo and you probably won't be able to attend a single Egyptian wedding that doesn't include a belly dancer, probably wearing much more revealing clothes.
These girls aren't rich, they're not well-connected and they have no one to save their future. I am not sure what this petition will achieve, but I'm certain that their stories need to be heard and acknowledged.
1,983
Petition created on July 30, 2020