{"id":2913,"date":"2014-06-20T10:34:51","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T03:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=2913"},"modified":"2014-06-20T10:35:02","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T03:35:02","slug":"egyptian-court-fines-man-after-hot-girl-remark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egyptian-court-fines-man-after-hot-girl-remark\/","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian court fines man after \u2018hot girl\u2019 remark"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Egyptian court on Wednesday fined a taxi driver $700 (5,000 Egyptian pounds) told a woman participating in a protest against harassment at a Cairo square to \u201cmake way mozza (Arabic slang for \u201chot girl\u201d).\u201d<\/p>\n

The verdict was issued by the head of a Cairo court of misdemeanors, minutes after the session kicked off.<\/p>\n

Eyewitnesses and girls at the protest had told the prosecution office that the defendant mocked their protest and verbally harassed them saying: \u201choney\u201d and \u201cmake way mozza.\u201d<\/p>\n

The taxi driver – who had been detained for four days – denied the charge in court, only admitting to asking one of the girls to make way in order to pass.<\/p>\n

Although the girl who was allegedly harassed dropped the charges, the judge issued the fine<\/p>\n

Tough law<\/p>\n

The sentence follows under new legislation issued earlier this month by former interim President Adly Mansour outlawing sexual harassment…<\/p>\n

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An Egyptian court on Wednesday fined a taxi driver $700 (5,000 Egyptian pounds) told a woman participating in a protest against harassment at a Cairo square to \u201cmake way mozza (Arabic slang for \u201chot girl\u201d).\u201d The verdict was issued by the head of a Cairo court of misdemeanors, minutes after the session kicked off. Eyewitnesses […]<\/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],"tags":[258,256,341,1242,1243,4697,415,1241,1240,1238,1239,257,4694,1244,254],"class_list":["post-2913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cairo","tag-cairo-square","tag-defendant-mocked-their-protest","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-harassment-at-a-cairo-square","tag-hot-girl","tag-make-way-mozza","tag-mozza","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-sexual-harassment","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913","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=2913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913\/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=2913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}