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 when Mr Sisi visited her in hospital on Wednesday, he said.
YouTube has not yet responded to news of the request.
The graphic video, which apparently shows a woman being stripped naked and attacked in the capital’s Tahrir Square, went viral earlier this week.
A string of assaults during the recent celebrations have caused uproar.
‘Horrifying’
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…
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