[2][3][4] Social media users in Egypt sparked controversy several times in 2020 over many cases related to harassment and rape, following which the judicial authorities moved to encourage victims to submit reports to the Public Prosecution.
[2] Egyptian actresses and users of social network sites during that period published details of many incidents of harassment.
At the afterparty of the famous 'Tea Dance' party at Fairmont Nile City hotel, a group of young men belonging to wealthy families, slipped GHB (the date rape drug) in a young woman's drink, gang raped her unconscious body, drawing and signing their initials on her body.
In July 2020, the Instagram page that successfully broadcast the testimonies against Ahmed Bassam Zaki, resulting in his arrest, started alluding to a video-taped gang rape crime that happened in February 2014, asking people to turn in the video evidence for it.
Sherif Komy is suspected to be in London, United Kingdom with his brother, where there is no extradition treaty to Egypt [citation needed].
After 10 months of the Fairmont scandal erupting, the case was temporarily paused, the accused rapists were let go, and the email created by the prosecution asking the public to send the video evidence of the crime to was officially closed down.