Monday, April 16, 2007

The Growing Violence Against Women on the Streets

Another issue ignored by Egyptian media has been the ever-growing plague of violent sexual harassment in public. Common occurrences usually involve large groups of men attacking women on Cairo's streets, such as those that happened last November during the Eid celebrations downtown. Again, in the face of receiving inadequate coverage by the state-run media, citizens took it upon themselves to get the story out there by posting their own videos like this one of a woman being harassed at the Cairo Stadium gates.

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Anonymous said...

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April 24, 2007 at 6:40 AM

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