Rape in Egypt

Although that has recently improved significantly due to social awareness by TV shows[6][7] and by the president Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi himself.

[1] Farah Shash, a psychologist explains that young boys are rarely stopped or opposed by their parents for molesting girls publicly, it's because the children always saw the same behavior around them.

[11] According Seif el-Dawla who runs a center in the country told that "Sexual molestation and harassment ... is routine for women who come across police".

The Egyptian Centre for Women's Rights (ECWR) has called the problem "social cancer" and suggested that dress code is not deterrent at all.

The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality on May 23, 2013, reported that an estimated 99.3% of Egyptian women said they faced some form of sexual violence.

[13] Activists in 2012 alleged that the Muslim Brotherhood pays for raping women and beating men who gather to protest.

[14] In August 2020, Egypt's public prosecution was seeking to arrest nine suspects accused of gang-raping a woman at Fairmont Nile City hotel in Cairo in 2014; however, lack of action for six years was due to the fact that six men involved in the incident were from powerful families.

The news was followed by criticism expressed by Egyptians on social networking platforms such as Facebook,[20] although the investigation is temporarily stopped to gather evidence.

[26] The high rate of rape and abduction of Coptic children by Islamists has also been documented both during President Morsi's rule.

Believing she was dying, she was dragged along the square to where the crowd was stopped by a fence, alongside which a group of women were camping.

One woman wearing a chador put her arms around Logan, and the others closed ranks around her, while some men who were with the women threw water at the crowd.

A report by Nina Burleigh quotes Egyptian Salafi preacher Ahmad Mahmoud Abdullah who said that "women protesting in Tahrir Square have no shame and want to be raped".

[34] There were several accounts of a heightened number of sexual assaults and rapes taking place during Eid al Fitr in 2006 in Egypt, some noting as well the precautions being taken to prevent a recurrence of such problems.

[48] 2014 saw lower rates of attempted harassment, and activists reported women and girls were more confident that assaults would be punished since amendment of the penal code earlier in the year.