Egyptian Chronicles:
: The video is not the Problem
▻http://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.fr/2014/06/endsh-video-is-not-problem.html
I am sorry for not joining the festivity mood of celebrating on how El-Sisi apologized to the victim but I got a very bad problem : I do not forget easily. No one has apologized for the girls who had undergone virginity tests in March 2011 “El-Sisi him admitted that there were virginity tests in Egypt in his meeting with the head of Amnesty International” or the famous Blue bra girl in December 2011.
I can not forget either that there are girls in Anatar women’s prison are being beaten and assaulted during their imprisonment because of their political affiliation.
By the way Entasser El-Sisi , Egypt’s current first lady visited the victim at the military hospital early Friday in what is considered her first public visit as a First lady. It is still unclear if she is going to have a public role like Jihan El-Sadat and Suzanne Mubarak or will have a small public role like Tahia Abdel Nasser and Naglaa Morsi.
Earlier today during his cycling marathon which he won it , President El-Sisi spoke about sexual harassment problem and he attacked the sexual assault video and that person who filmed. The Field Marshal wondered how the man had the guts to leave “his honor” {The lady} to be assaulted and to film that video and share the video defaming his country.
As much as I understand the debate about whether the man should have tried to save the lady or to complete filming but I do not understand how this clip defamed the country. This quote means that we are returning to the old days of sweeping dirt under the carpet for fear of defaming our image in front of the world as if the world does not know the truth !!
Let’s be clear here without any photo or video footage unfortunately no one would have believed that there were horrifying sexual assaults in Tahrir square whether now or in the past. In fact no one would have believed that there were torture, abuse and brutality in Egyptian police stations without video or photo proof because simply people reject to admit that we got problems. Nobody would have cared about the victims if that shocking video did not find its way to the internet.
Do you know that during the 30 June protests till the ousting of Morsi on 4 July Tahrir square witnessed several sexual harassment and assaults and that nobody gave a damn in the media !?