{"id":2485,"date":"2014-06-10T11:01:38","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T04:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=2485"},"modified":"2014-06-10T11:01:38","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T04:01:38","slug":"woman-stripped-naked-in-egypts-tahrir-square-video-shocks-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/woman-stripped-naked-in-egypts-tahrir-square-video-shocks-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman &#8216;stripped naked&#8217; in Egypt&#8217;s Tahrir Square video shocks Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A disturbing video which appears to show a woman being stripped naked and sexually assaulted in Egypt&#8217;s Tahrir Square has been widely viewed and shared &#8211; and has provoked outrage and anger among many on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Although many internet users initially thought the video showed events from Sunday, the video appears to have been first uploaded on 4 June &#8211; the day after official results from the presidential election were announced.<\/p>\n<p>The original video was removed from YouTube due to its graphic nature, and an amended version was re-uploaded on Sunday. It has been watched more than 130,000 times. It shows a woman with blood on her body being stripped naked and surrounded by men. She is then escorted to an ambulance.<\/p>\n<p>Egyptian blogger Nervana Mahmoud called the incident &#8220;despicable&#8221;, and &#8220;another reminder that Egypt has a long way to address its violence against women&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Before leaving office, outgoing President Adly Mansour issued a decree making sexual harassment a criminal offence, punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine of 50,000 Egyptian pounds ($7,000)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Source\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/blogs-trending-27765302\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Africa News North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A disturbing video which appears to show a woman being stripped naked and sexually assaulted in Egypt&#8217;s Tahrir Square has been widely viewed and shared &#8211; and has provoked outrage and anger among many on social media. Although many internet users initially thought the video showed events from Sunday, the video appears to have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338,299],"tags":[258,256,4697,415,257,4694,417,254,418,420,416,419],"class_list":["post-2485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","category-north-africa","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-sexually-assaulted-in-egypts-tahrir-square","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tahrir-square","tag-violence-against-women","tag-woman-being-stripped-naked","tag-woman-being-stripped-naked-and-sexually-assaulted-in-egypt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}