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Frustration in Egypt as Cairo hotel gang rape case is shelved

Frustration in Egypt as Cairo hotel gang rape case is shelved

MENNA A. FAROUK EGYPTIANS said yesterday that attitudes towards women need to change to end sexual violence in the north African country, after a high-profile gang rape case was shelved. Public prosecutors on Tuesday freed four suspects in a case involving a woman who said she was drugged and raped in 2014 at the Fairmont Hotel in the capital, Cairo, as evidence amassed during nearly nine months of investigation was insufficient. "The problem is not only with the law, but it is mainly with social attitudes towards women," said Entessar El-Saeed, director of the Cairo Foundation for Development and Law,…
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Egypt detains suspect in high-profile rape case

Egypt detains suspect in high-profile rape case

EGYPTIAN public prosecutors ordered the detention of a man suspected of being involved in an alleged gang rape at a luxury Cairo hotel in 2014 for four days pending investigation, they have announced in a statement. The man, who is also a suspect in other similar cases, was arrested by police on Wednesday as he tried to flee abroad like seven other suspects in the case, which has been the focus of an online campaign against sexual assault in Egypt, they said. The seven suspects fled the country between July 27 and July 29 after claims against them started to…
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