{"id":259594,"date":"2017-11-02T14:51:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T18:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=259594"},"modified":"2021-02-13T13:30:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T18:30:21","slug":"egyptian-tv-presenter-sentenced-over-pregnancy-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/sl\/egyptian-tv-presenter-sentenced-over-pregnancy-remarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian TV presenter sentenced over pregnancy remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Another country with no freedom. Boycott Egypt!<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>An Egyptian TV presenter has been sentenced to three years in jail after she discussed ways of becoming pregnant outside a conventional marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Doaa Salah, a presenter on Al-Nahar TV, asked if her viewers had considered having sex before marriage, and also suggested a woman could marry briefly to have children before divorcing.<\/p>\n<p>She was charged and convicted with outraging public decency.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Salah was also ordered to pay 10,000 Egyptian pounds (\u00a3430) in compensation.<\/p>\n<p>The authorities said the ideas in the programme &#8220;threatened the fabric of Egyptian life&#8221;, the EFE news agency reports.<\/p>\n<p>Sex before marriage is widely regarded as unacceptable in socially conservative Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Salah suggested that a potential husband could be paid for taking part in a short-lived marriage, and also spoke about how sperm donation is an accepted method in Western countries &#8211; but not in Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>She was suspended from her presenting job for three months in the aftermath of the broadcast, before legal action was taken against her.<\/p>\n<p>The three-year sentence follows an initial verdict which is open to an appeal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-41849838\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-41849838<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Another country with no freedom. Boycott Egypt! &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":297743,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}