Egypt has asked YouTube to remove a video of a woman being sexually assaulted during a rally in Cairo’s Tahrir Square supporting the country’s newly elected president.<\/p>\n
A spokesman for President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi said the request was made by the Egyptian embassy in Washington.<\/p>\n
The woman asked for the video to be taken down when Mr Sisi visited her in hospital on Wednesday, he said.<\/p>\n
YouTube has not yet responded to news of the request.<\/p>\n
The graphic video, which apparently shows a woman being stripped naked and attacked in the capital’s Tahrir Square, went viral earlier this week.<\/p>\n
A string of assaults during the recent celebrations have caused uproar.<\/p>\n
‘Horrifying’<\/strong><\/p>\n State-run television showed the president personally apologising to a victim, whose identity has been kept anonymous, at a military hospital in Cairo on Wednesday.<\/p>\n The woman was seen asking Mr Sisi to have the video of the attack removed from the video-sharing website.<\/p>\n “My daughter watches it every day and collapses,” she was quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency.<\/p>\n On Tuesday, a presidential spokesman said Mr Sisi had ordered officials to enforce a new law making sexual assault a crime for the first time.<\/p>\n The law decrees that those found guilty of harassment in public or private will face up to five years in prison and a maximum fine of 50,000 Egyptian pounds ($6,990; \u00a34,160).<\/p>\n Women’s rights groups have accused the authorities of failing to address the issue of sexual harassment.<\/p>\n A 2013 UN study said that nine out of 10 Egyptian women had experienced some form of sexual assault, ranging from minor harassment to rape.<\/p>\n Human rights campaigners have describe the extent of the problem in Egypt as “horrifying”.<\/p>\n Incidents have soared in the three years since the 2011 overthrow of Hosni Mubarak.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Egypt has asked YouTube to remove a video of a woman being sexually assaulted during a rally in Cairo’s Tahrir Square supporting the country’s newly elected president. A spokesman for President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi said the request was made by the Egyptian embassy in Washington. The woman asked for the video to be taken down […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1246,1234,14,891],"class_list":["post-24825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-11-unit-classroom-block","tag-ameri-deal","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah","tag-student-allowance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}