{"id":3060,"date":"2014-06-23T10:42:31","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T03:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3060"},"modified":"2014-06-23T10:42:40","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T03:42:40","slug":"trial-of-12-tahrir-square-sexual-harassers-to-start-on-25-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/trial-of-12-tahrir-square-sexual-harassers-to-start-on-25-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Trial of 12 Tahrir Square sexual harassers to start on 25 June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cairo Appeal Court set 25 June for the trial of 12 suspects involved in five cases of sexual harassment incidents that took place in Tahrir Square on 3 and 8 June during celebrations of the inauguration of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and the third anniversary of 25 January revolution.<\/p>\n<p>Trial of the suspects will be held by South Giza Criminal Court, according to Medhat Idris, head of the technical office of Cairo Appeal Court.<\/p>\n<p>On 14 June, Public Prosecutor Hesham Barakat ordered the referral of the suspects to Cairo Criminal Court, upon their interrogation.<\/p>\n<p>They face charges of kidnapping, forcible sexual assault, physical torture, robbery and premeditated murder. In case of being convicted, the crimes would lead to life sentence&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Egypt News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.egyptindependent.com\/\/news\/trial-12-sexual-harassers-start-25-june\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cairo Appeal Court set 25 June for the trial of 12 suspects involved in five cases of sexual harassment incidents that took place in Tahrir Square on 3 and 8 June during celebrations of the inauguration of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and the third anniversary of 25 January revolution. Trial of the suspects will be [&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],"tags":[258,256,341,4697,415,1455,1457,257,4694,1459,1461,1460,1458,1244,254,1456,418],"class_list":["post-3060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cairo","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-inauguration-of-president-abdel-fattah-al-sisi","tag-kidnapping","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-physical-torture","tag-premeditated-murder","tag-robbery","tag-sexual-assault","tag-sexual-harassment","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-giza-criminal-court","tag-tahrir-square"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3060","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=3060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3060\/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=3060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}