{"id":2589,"date":"2014-06-14T09:37:06","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T02:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=2589"},"modified":"2014-06-14T09:37:06","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T02:37:06","slug":"egypt-asks-youtube-to-remove-a-video-of-a-woman-being-sexually-assaulted-in-cairo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt-asks-youtube-to-remove-a-video-of-a-woman-being-sexually-assaulted-in-cairo\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt asks YouTube to remove a video of a woman being sexually assaulted in Cairo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\" class=\"introduction\">Egypt has asked YouTube to remove a video of a woman being sexually assaulted during a rally in Cairo&#8217;s Tahrir Square supporting the country&#8217;s newly elected president.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi said the request was made by the Egyptian embassy in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The woman asked for the video to be taken down when Mr Sisi visited her in hospital on Wednesday, he said.<\/p>\n<p>YouTube has not yet responded to news of the request.<\/p>\n<p>The graphic video, which apparently shows a woman being stripped naked and attacked in the capital&#8217;s Tahrir Square, went viral earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>A string of assaults during the recent celebrations have caused uproar.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"cross-head\">&#8216;Horrifying&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>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&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-27836525\" 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>Egypt has asked YouTube to remove a video of a woman being sexually assaulted during a rally in Cairo&#8217;s Tahrir Square supporting the country&#8217;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 [&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":[258,256,341,627,4697,415,257,4694,630,628,254,418,629],"class_list":["post-2589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","category-north-africa","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cairo","tag-cairo-tahrir-square","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-president-abdul-fattah-al-sisi","tag-sexually-assaulted-during-a-rally-in-cairos-tahrir-square","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tahrir-square","tag-woman-being-sexually-assaulted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589","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=2589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/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=2589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}