The Egyptian prosecutor’s office announced on Tuesday (June 21st) that it had arrested a young man accused of killing a student at his university for refusing to promote him, a crime that has sparked outrage on social media in the Arab world.
The alleged killer from Mansura, 130 km north of Cairo, was “He was detained for four days in connection with the investigation of the premeditated murder of a student in front of Nira Faculty.“, – is mentioned in the message about the parquet. The video, which was posted on social media on Monday, was widely circulated, in which Internet users claimed that they saw the young man stabbing Nira before being caught by passers-by. The accused hasHe confessed that he killed the victim because the latter refused to have relations with him“It adds to the floor.
Women are regularly abused
Several witnesses, including the victim’s father, said, according to the prosecution, that the young girl had already gathered a banister, saying that she was afraid of being attacked by the accused. Some people on social networks called “society as a whole takes better care of its children“Others argued thatit never happens again«. «Everyone should be wary of others to avoid such horror movies– wrote the user.
In Egypt, women are believed to be regularly abused, first and foremost by law, in a country where the spread of a strong Islamic vision since the 1970s and conservative traditions have influenced the evolution of women’s rights. In early 2021, the government even unsuccessfully proposed a bill aimed at restricting the rights of nearly 50 million Egyptian women, allowing, for example, their father or siblings to annul their marriage.
Source: Le Figaro
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