{"id":258890,"date":"2017-12-02T11:11:39","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T16:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=258890"},"modified":"2021-02-13T13:52:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T18:52:26","slug":"egyptian-lawyer-jailed-for-saying-women-in-ripped-jeans-should-be-raped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/lt\/egyptian-lawyer-jailed-for-saying-women-in-ripped-jeans-should-be-raped\/","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian lawyer jailed for saying women in ripped jeans should be raped"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
Great! He deserves it!<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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An Egyptian lawyer has been sentenced to three years in prison for saying that women who wear ripped jeans should be raped in punishment.<\/p>\n

Nabih al-Wahsh, a prominent conservative, was also fined 20,000 Egyptian pounds (\u00a3839; $1,130).<\/p>\n

The lawyer made the remarks on a TV panel show in October, during a debate on a draft law on prostitution.<\/p>\n

“Are you happy when you see a girl walking down the street with half of her behind showing?” he said.<\/p>\n

He added: “I say that when a girl walks about like that, it is a patriotic duty to sexually harass her and a national duty to rape her.”<\/p>\n

Mr Wahsh said that women who wore revealing clothing were “inviting men to harass them”, and said “protecting morals is more important than protecting borders”.<\/p>\n

The prosecutor brought charges against Mr Wahsh after a public outcry.<\/p>\n

The National Council for Women’s Rights condemned the remarks, saying they were a “flagrant call” for rape, in violation of “everything in the Egyptian constitution”.<\/p>\n

The council has now filed a complaint about the statement to the Supreme Council for Media Regulation about the broadcast which aired on 19 October.<\/p>\n

Mr Wahsh has previously called the Holocaust “imaginary” and declared himself a proud anti-Semite.<\/p>\n

“If I see any Israeli, I will kill him,” he said during a separate TV panel show.<\/p>\n

In October last year, Mr Wahsh was involved in a TV studio brawl with a cleric, after the cleric suggested women should not necessarily have to wear a headscarf.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-42209755<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Great! He deserves it!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":297817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}