By THE CAIRO POST CAIRO: Perpetrators of sexual harassment in 340 incidents, mostly verbal, have been released because no girls arrived to sign police reports, Youm7 reported Tuesday. The Morality Police issued 340 reports during the first day of Eid al-Fitr; … read more
By THE CAIRO POST CAIRO: Cairo’s downtown area witnessed mass sexual harassment Saturday on the Nile Corniche, Cairo Center for Development (CCD)’s Director Entsar el-Saeed told Youm7 Sunday. “Sexual harassment has become a catastrophic phenomenon, especially in feasts,” Saeed said, adding … read more
A civilian was killed and two others, including a firefighter, were injured as a blaze erupted on Monday in a three-storey building on El-Fagala Street off Ramsis Square, Health Ministry Spokesman Hossam Abdel-Ghafar told Ahram Online. At least 17 fire … read more
The Anti-Coup Alliance (ACA) called upon its supporters to hold million man marches and funeral prayers on Tuesday to commemorate the seven protesters who were killed in clashes with police during the Eid Al-Fitr celebrations. The alliance, which pledges allegiance … read more
A total of 41,042 Egyptian and foreign tourists visited the Giza Pyramids during the three days of Eid holidays, head of the Cairo and Giza Central Administration for Antiquities Kamal Wahid told MENA on Sunday. The majority of visitors were … read more
The level of verbal harassment in Downtown Cairo on Saturday rose to “unprecedented levels”, while there were no incidents of mob harassment, the anti-sexual harassment group Shoft Taharosh (I Saw Harassment) said on Sunday. Saturday was the second day of … read more
The Islamic State group (IS) announced Sunday on social media that it has kidnapped three Christian Africans in Libya; an Egyptian, Ghanaian and Nigerian, posting their passport pictures. “The three were kidnapped from Noufliyah in the southeast of the city … read more
A total of 6 deaths and 114 injuries occurred in 33 different incidents across Egypt during the Eid Al-Fitr holiday, according to the Health Ministry’s crisis management room. The deaths and injuries were attributed to several different causes, including food … read more
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry spoke to his British, French and German counterparts on Saturday, on the recent Iran nuclear deal and combatting terrorism, a ministry spokesman said. During the phone calls Shoukry stressed the importance of the international efforts … read more
Police in Cairo have arrested 29 men for sexual harassment since the beginning of the Eid al-Fitr holiday on Friday, al-Ahram Arabic reported. Police said one man was arrested for physically harassing a woman in downtown Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil area, … read more