Egypt's Salafist party to propose anti-sexual harassment law
Bikya Masr
Egypt’s ultra-conservative Salafist al-Nour party announced on Wednesday it was looking to formulate an anti-sexual harassment draft law and would present it for review in parliament shortly.
Nader Bakar, the party’s spokesman, said the draft law is a response to the increase of sexual harassment on Egyptian streets and most notably the attack on the anti-sexual harassment demonstration last Friday that was attacked by mobs of men who attempted to grope and corner women in Tahrir Square.
The protest itself came in response to a large number of women reporting they had been harassed in Cairo’s Tahrir Square.
More than two thirds of Egyptian women face sexual harassment on a daily basis, and with weak legal measures and a lack of tolerance from society, harassment is on the rise.
Bakar said they are following the legislative example of several countries in Europe that dealt, and in a way, diminished the social plague.
Salafists, or Islamic puritans, enjoy a reputation of being anti-women’s freedoms, but in case the law is passed and effective, they would achieve what many other parties and political powers have ignored to address for years.
They now hold a large number of seats in the parliament and with the Muslim Brotherhood, Islamists are the majority in Egypt’s lower house.
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