Egyptian TikTok influencer to bid 10-year dealing sentence

Egyptian TikTok influencer Haneen Hossam will request a 10-year jail sentence given over by a Cairo court that saw her as liable of illegal exploitation, her attorney said on Monday, Reuters revealed.

In the most recent bend in an almost year-long adventure, the court additionally fined the 20-year-old Cairo University understudy 200,000 Egyptian pounds ($13,000) on Sunday for urging ladies to share the film on the video-sharing application in return for cash.

“We will request the reclamation of the case procedures on the grounds that there are logical inconsistencies between the decision and the benefits on which the court’s choice is based,” said legal advisor Hani Sameh.

“We trust that she can get a decreased prison sentence or an exoneration,” he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

A few ladies have been blamed for “instigating lewdness” for testing Egypt’s moderate social qualities, and the fight has moved online as the utilization of web-based media by youthful Egyptians floods.

Hossam, who has around 7 million supporters on TikTok, was among five Egyptian web-based media influencers who were condemned to two years in prison in July 2020 for advancing impropriety by urging ladies to bring in cash through web-based media followings.

The other four individuals from the gathering were Mawaddah Al-Adham, who was seen as blameworthy of sharing “disgusting” photographs and recordings with her 1 million Instagram devotees, and three men who were seen as liable for aiding the two ladies.

An allure court toppled the decision in January however presented new charges of illegal exploitation. The five blamed were delivered in February, subsequent to going through eight months in prison.

On Sunday, every one of the five was seen as liable for illegal exploitation and fined 200,000 pounds each.

Hossam was given the longest jail sentence — 10 years — with Al-Adham and the three men simply requested to serve six years.

Sameh said Hossam got the hardest condemning on the grounds that she had not shown up in court, despite the fact that “it was her legitimate right not to appear”.

The choice has offended rights protectors.

“The decision is unforgiving and misrepresented,” said Reda Eldanbouki, chief overseer of the Women’s Center for Guidance and Legal Awareness.

“Such a decision confines the right to opportunity of assessment and articulation and expects to control ladies’ bodies and force guardianship over their activities,” he said.

Eldanbouki said the decision limits ladies with obscure names like “ensuring family esteems”.

The state-run National Council for Women was not accessible for input.

Enter el-Saeed, another ladies’ privileges dissident and top of the Cairo Foundation for Development and Law said specialists were unreasonably singling out ladies — not men — in their endeavors to “defend” family esteems.

“We can see different recordings and posts via web-based media by men legitimizing conjugal assault however with no response against them. Doesn’t that disregard family esteems?” El-Saeed inquired.