{"id":4005,"date":"2014-07-13T12:05:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-13T05:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4005"},"modified":"2014-07-13T12:05:52","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T05:05:52","slug":"egypt-police-arrest-man-for-raping-russian-tourist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-police-arrest-man-for-raping-russian-tourist\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt police arrest man for raping Russian tourist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cairo &#8211; Egyptian police said Saturday they have arrested a driver for raping a Russian tourist in a resort town, as the government cracks down on an epidemic of sexual harassment and violence.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the mini-bus driver raped the woman after pretending the vehicle had broken down, to trick her husband into getting off before speeding off with his intended victim.<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place in the Red Sea resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh, where the Tourism Ministry had previously shut down two hotels over alleged rapes.<\/p>\n<p>In Cairo, police said Saturday they have arrested a low-ranking officer who groped a Tunisian woman at Cairo airport.<\/p>\n<p>The government recently passed a law imposing harsher penalties for sexual crimes.<\/p>\n<p>President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi pledged to crack down on such crimes, after footage circulated of men sexually assaulting a woman during a rally&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Egypt News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailystar.com.lb\/News\/Middle-East\/2014\/Jul-12\/263647-egypt-police-arrest-man-for-raping-russian-tourist.ashx\" 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 &#8211; Egyptian police said Saturday they have arrested a driver for raping a Russian tourist in a resort town, as the government cracks down on an epidemic of sexual harassment and violence. Police said the mini-bus driver raped the woman after pretending the vehicle had broken down, to trick her husband into getting off [&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":[489,258,256,341,4697,415,2608,2613,2614,2616,257,4694,451,2609,2607,2610,2301,2615,2611,254,1634,2612],"class_list":["post-4005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-abdel-fattah-al-sisi","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cairo","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-epidemic-of-sexual-harassment-and-violence","tag-groped-a-tunisian-woman-at-cairo-airport","tag-harsher-penalties-for-sexual-crimes","tag-men-sexually-assaulting-a-woman","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-raped","tag-raped-the-woman","tag-raping-a-russian-tourist","tag-red-sea-resort-town-of-sharm-el-sheikh","tag-russian-tourist","tag-sexual-crimes","tag-sharm-el-sheikh","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tourism","tag-tourism-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005","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=4005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005\/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=4005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}