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":[],"categories":[],"tags":[1246,1234,14,891],"yoast_head":"\n