A week after the video went viral last A week in which an Egyptian man appears to stab a fatal woman in publicThe trial began on Sunday. The man stabbed the woman death After she rejected his advances – an issue that sparked widespread outrage around the world world.
The victim, who has been identified as student Naira Ashraf stabbed her young man outside her university. The crime she has triggered Both widespread anger in Egypt and abroad, a few days later followed by a similar incident in and he is jordanian student Iman Arsheed was shot dead on campus.
social media Users immediately drew comparisons between the two murders, and denounced the cases of female killing in Arabi world. In Mansoura Criminal Court 130 km north of Cairo, Mohamed Adel accused of “Premeditation murder”After intentionally admitting it killing The correspondent of the French news agency (AFP) said that the victim.
Ashraf had earlier reported the alleged perpetrator to the authorities, fearing he would attack According to her father and witnesses. The maximum penalty for murder he is death in Egypt that carried out Third highest number of executions in The world in 2021, according to Amnesty International.
“I stabbed her several times timesthe prosecution said that found Letters threatening to cut her throat on Victim’s phone. The next hearing set for The lawyer for the accused, Ahmed Hamad, told AFP on Tuesday.
In rare cases between cases involving violence against womenThe authorities allowed television cameras to film the hearing on Sunday. on me social mediamany Jordanian and Egyptian users called for The offender who is sentenced to death while others said men You must ‘learn to take no for Answer.”
The Egyptian preacher Mabrouk Attia sparked a wave of anger last A week after indicating that the victim wouldn’t do it met The same fate if she was veiled.
Approximately 8 million Egyptians women They were victims of Violence perpetrated by their partners, relatives, or strangers in public Places, according to a survey by the United Nations in 2015.
